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    Fischer and Ravizza show that an agent is responsible whe... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→We should be skeptical about moral responsibility.

    Fischer and Ravizza show that an agent is responsible when their mechanism for acting is reasons-responsive and appropriately their own, regardless of determinism.

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    • 1.Moral responsibility requires only that an agent's actions flow from their own reasoning capacities, not that they could have done otherwise.
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    • 2.Reasons-responsiveness ensures agents can recognize, deliberate about, and adjust behavior based on moral considerations they encounter.
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    • 3.Ownership of one's mechanism means the agent's reasons-responsive system reflects their values and character, making them the appropriate target of accountability.
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    • 1.A deterministic mechanism can be reasons-responsive yet still manipulated or designed by external forces, undermining genuine ownership of the mechanism.
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    • 2.The criteria 'appropriately their own' is vague and may not meaningfully distinguish responsible from non-responsible agents in deterministic systems.
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    • 3.Intuitions about moral desert—that wrongdoers deserve punishment—seem to require ultimate origination that reasons-responsiveness alone cannot guarantee.
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