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agent-causation
Agent-causation is a (putative)
type of causation that can best be understood by
contrasting it with event-causation. When a ball
hits and breaks a window, one may think of the
causal relationship here in terms of one event
causing another, namely, the ball’s hitting the window
causing the window’s being broken. In an instance
of agent causation, it is not one event that
causes another. Rather, an agent—a persisting
substance—causes an event. Some philosophers,
such as Roderick Chisholm (see Chisholm,
“Human Freedom and the Self”) have argued
that agent-causation is required for genuine free
will. Agent-causation is also (see Chisholm)
sometimes referred to as immanent causation, and
event causation sometimes referred to as transeunt
causation
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