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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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