If manipulation that satisfies all compatibilist conditions still intuitively undermines responsibility, then satisfying those conditions is insufficient for freedom, and ordinary persuasion cases cannot be used to vindicate compatibilism by analogy.
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The philosophical position that free will and moral responsibility are compatible with determinism being true
compatibilist conditions(Used to argue that Bert satisfies all such conditions yet still acts unfreely, undermining compatibilism.)
The set of conditions proposed by compatibilists as sufficient for free and morally responsible agency, which may include both historical conditions (about how an agent's character was formed) and nonhistorical conditions (about the agent's current psychological states and capacities).
manipulation(Distinguished from forms of influence that would undermine free will or moral responsibility)
Influence exerted by one person on another through arguments, sales pitches, or subtle social pressures that causes the person to change their mind or act differently than they otherwise would have
sufficient condition(Used in the context of whether intrinsic properties can define species membership)
A property whose presence guarantees membership in or applicability of a category, such that having the property entails belonging to the species or class