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    LUCK AND HISTORY-SENSITIVE COMPATIBILISM

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    Levy, N
    Date
    2009-04-01
    Source Title
    PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY
    Publisher
    OXFORD UNIV PRESS
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    LEVY, NEIL
    Affiliation
    Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry
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    Levy, N. (2009). LUCK AND HISTORY-SENSITIVE COMPATIBILISM. PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY, 59 (235), pp.237-251. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9213.2008.568.x.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/31022
    DOI
    10.1111/j.1467-9213.2008.568.x
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    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2696473
    Abstract
    Libertarianism seems vulnerable to a serious problem concerning present luck, because it requires indeterminism somewhere in the causal chain leading to directly free action. Compatibilism, in contrast, is thought to be free of this problem, as not requiring indeterminism in the causal chain. I argue that this view is false: compatibilism is subject to a problem of present luck. This is less of a problem for compatibilism than for libertarianism. However, its effects are just as devastating for one kind of compatibilism, the kind of compatibilism which is history-sensitive, and therefore must take the problem of constitutive luck seriously. The problem of present luck confronting compatibilism is sufficient to undermine the history-sensitive compatibilist's response to remote - constitutive - luck.
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