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Agentive Modality Focused On Possibility
- Modality here means possibility and necessity as they relate to agents.
- John Maier focuses on agentive possibility—what an agent can do now and in the future—rather than agentive necessity.
Options Are The Primitive Units Of Agency
- Options are primitive building blocks for agentive modality and can't be reductively analyzed.
- Maier connects everyday language, decision theory, and metaphysics to justify treating options as basic units of choice.
Simple Compatibilism Allows Options In Determinism
- Simple compatibilism: options are analytically basic and can exist even in a deterministic world.
- Maier rejects auxiliary compatibilist doctrines (e.g., conditional analyses) and treats compatibilism narrowly as coexistence of options with determinism.