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    Supports→The argument based on libertarian free will is not immune from challenge.

    Randolph Clarke and Derk Pereboom demonstrate that even sophisticated libertarian accounts cannot fully sever the connection between indeterminism and the epistemic luck that undermines genuine authorship.

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    • 1.Indeterministic events by definition lack sufficient prior causes, making outcomes partially random rather than agent-determined.
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    • 2.If an action's occurrence is not fully determined by the agent's character and reasoning, that agent cannot claim full authorship.
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    • 3.Clarke and Pereboom show libertarians cannot explain how indeterminism avoids making authorship hostage to epistemic luck about causation.
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    • 1.Authorship requires agent-control, not determinism; indeterminism within agent-systems can express rather than undermine control.
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    • 2.Epistemic luck about whether indeterminism obtains differs from metaphysical luck; agents can be authors despite uncertainty about causation.
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    • 3.Libertarians can ground authorship in the agent's capacities for rational responsiveness, independent of determinism-indeterminism debate.
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    Key Terms

    Derk Pereboom(as a key philosopher defending this position)
    A contemporary philosopher who defends hard incompatibilism and argues that people cannot be truly morally responsible for their actions.
    Genuine authorship(describing what makes an action truly 'yours' in a meaningful way)
    The idea that you are truly responsible for and in control of your own actions, rather than being controlled by outside forces or randomness.
    Libertarian (in philosophy)(in metaphysics and free will debates)
    Not about politics—this refers to philosophers who believe humans have free will that is NOT determined by prior causes, and that this free will is genuinely real.
    Randolph Clarke(mentioned as an author of philosophical work on free will)
    A contemporary philosophy professor who specializes in questions about free will and whether our choices are truly our own.
    epistemic luck(Used to distinguish mere true belief from genuine knowledge)
    The condition where a belief is true, but the truth is accidental — the believer could easily have held the same belief while being wrong
    indeterminism(implied by the text's classification of agent causation as a form of indeterminism)
    The view that there are certain events that are not fixed as a matter of natural law

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