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    It is not the case that Kane's appeal to indeterminate efforts of will and indeterminism does not help meet the luck objection against event-causal libertarianism

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    • 1.On Kane's view, the agent's wanting more to act on the reason for which she makes a self-forming willing (SFW) is brought about by the choice itself, not prior to it
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    • 2.On an event-causal view, the agent's control over making a choice is a matter of the production of the choice, not of what the choice produces
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    • 3.Therefore, the requirement that the agent comes to want more to act on the chosen reason cannot ground control over the choice itself
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    • 1.Quantum indeterminacy in neural processes introduces genuine randomness into choice, but randomness is not equivalent to agent-directed control.
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    • 2.Kane's SFWs require the agent to be the *cause* of which indeterminate branch actualizes, yet event-causal accounts lack resources to assign this selection to the agent rather than chance.
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    • 3.Mele's 'luck pincer' establishes that indeterminism either reduces agent control (if pre-decisional) or renders the outcome arbitrary (if decisional), leaving no viable middle ground for Kane.
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    • 1.Pereboom's four-case manipulation argument shows that causal histories structurally identical to deterministic ones inherit the same control deficits, and Kane's indeterminism merely substitutes causal gaps for causal inevitability.
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    • 2.A genuine agent-causal relation requires the *substance* of the agent—not merely events within the agent—to be the originating source, a condition event-causal libertarianism by definition cannot satisfy.
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