Sublating the Free Will Problematic: Powers, Agency and Causal Determination

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I argue that a powers-based metaphysics radically reconfigures the existing free will problematic. This is different from claiming that such an approach solves the ill-conceived problems that emerge from Humean-Kantian default commitments.

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Ruth Groff
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