ABSTRACT
The phrase ‘consequence argument’ was rst used by Peter van Inwagen as the name for the following informal line of reasoning:
If determinism is true, then our acts are the consequences of the laws of nature and events in the remote past. But it is not up to us what went on before we were born, and neither is it up to us what the laws of nature are. Therefore, the consequences of these things (including our present acts) are not up to us.
