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    It is not the case that The condition that an action not have any cause outside the agent is not a sufficient condition for libertarian free will.

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    • This condition would be satisfied if the behavior in question were caused by random events within the agent.
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    • 1.Libertarian free will requires that the agent herself, as a unified self, be the originating source of action, not merely a locus where uncaused events occur.
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    • 2.Random quantum-level events within an agent produce actions attributable to chance, not to the agent as a reasons-responsive deliberative subject.
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    • 3.Agent causation, as defended by Roderick Chisholm, posits a distinct ontological category where persons cause events without being caused by prior events, satisfying sourcehood without randomness.
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    • 1.Robert Kane's appeal to indeterminism requires that agents identify with and take responsibility for whichever way undetermined choices resolve, showing mere absence of external cause is insufficient.
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    • 2.An action caused only by internal random processes fails the reasons-responsiveness condition articulated by Fischer and Ravizza, since the agent cannot reliably respond to rational incentives.
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    • 3.Therefore, causal independence from external factors must be supplemented by active rational self-determination to constitute genuine libertarian freedom.
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