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    It is not the case that Pereboom's 'hard incompatibilism' argues determinism does bypass reasons-responsiveness by tracing causes to factors wholly outside the agent.

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    • 1.Reasons-responsiveness concerns whether agents reliably adjust behavior based on their understanding of reasons, not whether causation originates 'outside' them.
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    • 2.Tracing causes externally describes all causation generally; it doesn't explain why deterministic causation specifically blocks reasons-responsiveness more than other systems.
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    • 3.An agent constituted by and operating through determined causal chains can still be the entity whose reasons-responsiveness mechanisms determine behavior, preserving responsibility.
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    • 1.If all agent decisions trace to prior causes outside their control, agents cannot be the ultimate originators of their responses to reasons.
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    • 2.Reasons-responsiveness requires agents to originate behavioral adjustments; tracing causation backward to external factors undermines this originative capacity.
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    • 3.Determinism entails no agent could have acted differently given identical prior states; this precludes the alternative-possibility responsiveness genuine reasons demand.
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