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    It is not the case that Compatibilists who admit causal moral luck must also accept constitutive and circumstantial moral luck

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    • 1.Compatibilists can distinguish causal luck in resultant outcomes from luck in the formation of character or circumstances that ground agency.
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    • 2.Constitutive luck concerns the self that acts, while causal luck concerns external causal chains—these are conceptually separable domains.
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    • 3.A compatibilist can hold that what matters morally is the agent's reasons-responsiveness, which is not itself undermined by admitting resultant luck.
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    • 1.P2 assumes a causal closure principle that exhausts agential luck into constitutive and circumstantial kinds, but this begs the question against compatibilist accounts of agency.
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    • 2.Gary Watson and Susan Wolf argue that self-governing agents possess evaluative capacities that are not fully reducible to antecedent constitutive or circumstantial causal factors.
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    • 1.Compatibilists admit the existence of causal moral luck
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    • 2.Causal luck is exhausted by constitutive luck and circumstantial luck
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