| agent-causation | Causation that occurs when an agent (self, person) causes an event.
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| causal determinism | The doctrine that every event has a cause that makes it happen.
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| causal indeterminism | The doctrine that some events are uncaused.
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| event-causation | Causation that occurs when one event causes another.
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| first-order desire | A desire directed on an object or a state of affairs.
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| hard determinism | The doctrine that there are no free actions.
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| hierarchical compatibilism | The doctrine that free actions are caused by second-order volitions that one decisively identifies with.
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| incompatibilism | The doctrine that causal determinism is incompatible with the view that we sometimes act freely.
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| indeterminism | The doctrine that free actions are uncaused.
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| libertarianism | The doctrine that free actions are caused by selves (agents, persons).
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| second-order desire | A desire directed on a first-order desire.
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| second-order volition | A second-order desire on which one wants to act.
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| soft determinism | The doctrine that determined actions can nevertheless be free.
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| traditional compatibilism | The doctrine that free actions are (1) caused by one's will and (2) not externally constrained.
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