If determinism is a threat to freedom, that threat derives solely from its alleged eradication of power. The source incompatibilist
mistakenly supposes that special views about the self are required to insure that we are the ultimate source of and in control
of our decisions and actions. Source incompatibilism fails whether it takes the form of Robert Kane’s event-causal libertarianism
or the various agent-causal varieties defended by Derk Pereboom and Randolph Clarke. It is argued that the sort of control
free agents need to possess and exercise can be secured without metaphysical excess. If there is a free will problem, it is
the one G. E. Moore addressed in 1912. He concluded that persons can act otherwise in a deterministic world. We should continue
to try to figure out whether he was right or wrong.
Keywords freedom - determinism - compatibilism - libertarianism - source incompatibilism - agent causation