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







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