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In This Essay Chisholm Argues That Free Actions Are Possible

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In this essay Chisholm argues that free actions are possible because they are caused not by indefinitely long sequences of preceding events but rather by an agent (or self) . He calls the former kind of causation "event causation" and the latter "agent causation." In his view, when we act freely, we act like God-a prime mover that is itself unmoved, an uncaused cause of events.
-According to Chisholm, the notion of agent causation is

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A character that is present in a clade under consideration, but not in any of the clade’s ancestors.

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A type of natural selection that favors intermediate variants by acting against extreme phenotypes, leading to a decrease in a population's genetic variance.

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