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    It is not the case that Self-deceivers can be morally responsible for individual episodes of self-deception or for the vices from which they spring

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    • 1.Self-deception constitutively involves the agent being unaware of the motivated reasoning driving their belief formation.
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    • 2.Moral responsibility for an action requires that the agent could have recognized and reflectively endorsed or rejected the process producing it.
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    • 3.An agent cannot exercise the requisite control over a cognitive process whose operation is systematically hidden from their reflective awareness.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Alfred Mele's 'cold' self-deception shows that many self-deceptive beliefs arise from normal cognitive biases like confirmation bias, requiring no motivated reasoning.
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    • 2.Agents cannot be held morally responsible for trait-level cognitive tendencies that are products of evolutionary pressures largely invariant across persons and cultures.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Most non-intentionalist accounts allow for such responsibility
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    • 2.Moral responsibility requires that agents have control over the actions in question
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    • 3.Many sources of bias are controllable
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