Taming Pereboom’s Wild Coincidences
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چکیده
Abstract Pereboom’s ‘wild coincidences’ argument against agent-causal libertarianism is based on the claim that in a world governed by statistical laws, dovetailing of indeterministic physical happenings with free actions agent causes would be coincidence too wild to credible. In this paper it shown conclusion valid for deterministic but fails laws. Therefore, does not provide promised empirical refutation libertarianism.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Mind
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['0026-4423', '1460-2113']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzad002