Ideas from 'Human Freedom and the Self' by Roderick Chisholm [1964], by Theme Structure
[found in 'Free Will' (ed/tr Watson,Gary) [OUP 1982,0-19-87054-4]].
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 4. For Free Will
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If actions are not caused by other events, and are not causeless, they must be caused by the person
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 5. Against Free Will
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For Hobbes (but not for Kant) a person's actions can be deduced from their desires and beliefs
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If free will miraculously interrupts causation, animals might do that; why would we want to do it? [Frankfurt]
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20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 4. Responsibility for Actions
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Responsibility seems to conflict with events being either caused or not caused
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Desires may rule us, but are we responsible for our desires?
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / b. Causal relata
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Causation among objects relates either events or states
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