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    The argument based on libertarian free will is not immune... — Carmelics
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    The argument based on libertarian free will is not immune from challenge.

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    • 1.Agent causation theories (Chisholm, O'Connor) posit a sui generis causal power, but this faces the 'luck objection': if agent causation is undetermined, the agent's choice remains arbitrary.
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    • 2.Arbitrary choices cannot ground moral responsibility, so agent causation fails to provide the robust freedom needed to justify God permitting evil for its sake.
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    • 1.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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    • 2.If God could have created agents with reliable tendencies toward good without sacrificing genuine freedom, the libertarian defense overestimates the moral value of undetermined choice.
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    • 1.Libertarian free will requires more than the mere absence of causal determinism.
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    • 2.There is serious difficulty in articulating what that something more beyond the absence of determinism consists in.
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    • 3.Although the idea of actions that are not causally determined is unproblematic, that alone does not constitute libertarian free will.
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    Neither of these lines of argument is immune from challenge. As regards the former, one can argue that the examples that are typically advanced of cases where some evil is logically necessary for a greater good that outweighs the evil are not really, upon close examination, convincing, while, as regards the latter, there is a serious problem of making sense of libertarian free will, for although there is no difficulty about the idea of actions that are not causally determined, libertarian free will requires more than the mere absence of determinism, and the difficulty arises when one attempts...
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    Validity: The premises faithfully capture the passage's reasoning that the libertarian free will argument faces a serious challenge because it requires something beyond mere absence of determinism, and articulating that additional element is problematic, which directly supports the conclusion that the argument is not immune from challenge.

    Confidence: Clearly presented as a challenge to the libertarian free will defense.

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