A Response to Alex O'Connor's Argument for Determinism

 Is as follows: 

(1) Choices must always be determined or undetermined. 

(2) If a choice is determined, then it is external to the agent. If a choice is undetermined, then it is random. 

(3) Therefore, all choices are either dependent on something external to the agent or random. 

(4) Libertarian free will is false. 

Source incompatiblists about free will would probably deny premise 2. I would need to argue that some choice is determined by the agent themselves, and there is no further reason for that choice rather than the agent. Thus, the source of the choice is the agent, and agent causation follows. 

There are several issues with this view. First, is this even coherent?? It denies the principle of sufficient reason. Second, if the substance (an agent) is the same, how can it produce all sorts of things (choices) without changing? If it changes, then that begs the question of what causes the change. 

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