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    Supports→Self-deceivers can be morally responsible for individual episodes of self-deception or for the vices from which they spring

    Moral responsibility requires that agents have control over the actions in question

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    Initially, non-intentionalist approaches may seem to remove the agent from responsibility by rendering the process by which she is self-deceived subintentional. If my anxiety, fear, or desire triggers a process that ineluctably leads me to hold the self-deceptive belief, I cannot be held responsible for holding that belief. How can I be held responsible for processes that operate without my knowledge and which are set in motion without my intention? Most non-intentionalist accounts, however, do

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