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    It is not the case that Bert acts freely and is morally responsible for his actions

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    • 1.Compatibilist accounts capture only the surface conditions of agency, not the deeper metaphysical requirements for genuine authorship.
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    • 2.If the causal history of Bert's deliberative states traces back to factors entirely outside his control, he is not the ultimate source of his actions.
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    • 3.Moral responsibility requires sourcehood in the agent, not merely the absence of compulsion or the presence of responsive reasoning.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Satisfying ordinary folk attributions of free action is insufficient, since folk intuitions systematically conflate freedom from coercion with genuine metaphysical freedom.
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    • 2.Experimental philosophy research (Nichols, Nahmias) reveals that folk intuitions about responsibility are sensitive to framing and are therefore unreliable as a normative standard.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Bert satisfies the ordinary conditions used in real life to attribute free action
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    • 2.Bert satisfies all the conditions of the best compatibilist accounts on offer
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