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The consequence argument asks how control over an action could remain if it follows from a past and laws beyond one’s control. Its inference is itself contested.
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Guided course · Module 13 · Lesson 83
Can responsibility survive causal explanation?
Hume, van Inwagen and Fischer disagree about the control that responsibility requires. The lesson separates three ideas their arguments rely on: causal determination, alternative possibilities and responsiveness to reasons.