caa a22 4500 605475083 CHVBK 20210128100350.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10516-014-9247-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10516-014-9247-6 Rigato Maria Center for Philosophy of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, University of Lisbon, Faculty of Sciences, Campo Grande, Edifício C4, 3º piso, sala 4.3.24, 1749-016, Lisbon, Portugal aut Reductionism, Agency and Free Will [Elektronische Daten] [Maria Rigato] In the context of the free will debate, both compatibilists and event-causal libertarians consider that the agent's mental states and events are what directly causes her decision to act. However, according to the ‘disappearing agent' objection, if the agent is nothing over and above her physical and mental components, which ultimately bring about her decision, and that decision remains undetermined up to the moment when it is made, then it is a chancy and uncontrolled event. According to agent-causalism, this sort of problem can be overcome if one realizes that the agent herself, as an irreducible substance, is the true originator of her actions. I'll present arguments that favor this view. Event-causalists have countered that if the agent identifies with some of the inner states that play the self-determining causal role in bringing about the action, then it is as though the action was directly caused by herself. I'll object that this is not a distinctive aspect of free agency. Agent-causalism has been criticized from most naturalistically inclined fronts, and it must address risks of implausibility, contradiction and unintelligibility. Even though I'll acknowledge these challenges, I'll still argue that libertarian free will cannot be defended by any reductionist alternative, and that agent-causalism does not conflict with contemporary science but only with some of its unproven assumptions. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 Agent-causalism nationallicence Event-causalism nationallicence Reductionism nationallicence Free will nationallicence Libertarianism nationallicence Substance-causation nationallicence Axiomathes Springer Netherlands 25/1(2015-03-01), 107-116 1122-1151 25:1<107 2015 25 10516 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10516-014-9247-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10516-014-9247-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Rigato Maria Center for Philosophy of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, University of Lisbon, Faculty of Sciences, Campo Grande, Edifício C4, 3º piso, sala 4.3.24, 1749-016, Lisbon, Portugal aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Axiomathes Springer Netherlands 25/1(2015-03-01), 107-116 1122-1151 25:1<107 2015 25 10516