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    It is not the case that The argument based on libertarian free will is not immune from challenge.

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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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    Reasons Against

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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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