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The BK virus, adenovirus, Cytomegalovirus, and herpes virus have been identified as causation agents of viral hemorrhagic cystitis [ 13, 14].
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In contrast, with agent causation, the agent has both a power to cause a certain effect and a power not to cause it.
But, as we have seen, the agent causation posited by agent-causal theories is held not to be this at all.
One essential element of Chisholm's view is the idea that there is a distinction between event causation and agent causation.
It is a matter of some dispute whether event causation and agent causation can be combined in this fashion and, if they can be, whether the combination would provide what incompatibilists think necessary for free will.
On what are called agent-causal views, causation by an agent is held not to consist in causation by events (such as the agent's recognizing certain reasons).
One concerns acting freely for a reason and the reason-explanation of free actions; the second is the problem of luck; the last concerns the intelligibility of the notion of agent causation and whether causation by an agent (where this is understood to be causation by a substance) is possible.
And its requirement of agent causation may be thought to secure the agent's determining, herself, which alternative she pursues, as well as her originating her action.
Researchers find that people specifically ascribe causation by intentional agents to nature (Sinatra et al. 2008).
That's not inconsistent with an infectious causation: Some infectious agents attack only individuals who are genetically predisposed.
Hume's naturalistic framework for understanding moral and social life excludes not only the metaphysics of libertarianism (e.g., modes of "moral" causation by immaterial agents) but also all further theologically inspired metaphysics that generally accompanies it (i.e. God, the immortal soul, a future state, and so on).
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