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    Challenges→Kane's appeal to endorsement of resulting choices does not establish responsibility for the efforts of will that produced those choices

    An agent's responsibility for an action cannot depend on whether, subsequent to that action, the agent endorses one of its results

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    In recent work, Kane (e.g., at 2007b: 174–75) accepts that responsibility for choices that are SFWs requires that we be responsible for the efforts of will that produce these choices. We generally are responsible for these efforts, he maintains, because they are influenced by character and motives resulting from our prior free choices, and because we generally endorse the outcome of such an effort when it succeeds—the resulting choice. The second of these observations seems not to the point, sin

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