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Agent Causation

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Agent causation: the agent themselves—not prior events, not chance—causes the free choice. Persons are causes of a distinctive kind.

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Chisholm called the free agent a prime mover unmoved: the chain starts with the person, full stop.

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Critics ask what agent-causing amounts to beyond renaming the mystery—the view's cost is its obscurity.