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    It is not the case that Pereboom's four cases conflate manipulation with determinism by ignoring that causal history matters only when it bypasses the agent's own reasons-responsive mechanism.

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    • 1.The distinction between 'bypassing' and 'working through' reasons-responsive mechanisms may be incoherent under determinism.
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    • 2.Pereboom's actual argument challenges whether reasons-responsiveness itself suffices for responsibility in a deterministic world.
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    • 3.Focusing on mechanism function begs the question against those who think determinism undermines responsibility at any level.
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    • 1.An agent's responsibility depends on whether their decision-making process functioned normally, not on whether determinism is true.
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    • 2.Pereboom's cases don't distinguish between external manipulation and internal causal chains that preserve rational agency.
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    • 3.If reasons-responsiveness is intact, the causal history is irrelevant to moral responsibility regardless of deterministic background.
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