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In his “Metaphysics” (1963), Richard Taylor discusses the assumption “that in the case of everything that exists, there are antecedent conditions...given which that thing could not be other than it is (p.34)”. He raises the question whether this thesis of universal causal determinism is consistent with something “which every man knows, or believes himself to know (p.37)”, namely that sometimes what I do is up to me.
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Vollmer, F. (1999). Theories of Agent Causality. In: Agent Causality. Synthese Library, vol 283. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9225-3_3
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