ABSTRACT
Some philosophers take the issue of an alternative-possibilities condition for responsibility to have been already put to rest by a certain type of scenario, originally made famous in a paper by Harry Frankfurt. Michael Bratman discusses recent developments in Frankfurt's views and contributes a novel proposal concerning the problem of identification. Alfred Mele and David Robb reconstruct a Frankfurt-type scenario so as not to beg any questions against the incompatibilist. Incompatibilists face formidable—some say insurmountable—difficulties in formulating an account of free will incorporating indeterminism. Concerns over free will and responsibility arise most readily in reaction to particularly bizarre and devastating manifestations of human agency. A careful analysis of the notion of agent control over action, the reconciliationist alleges, will show that an account perfectly compatible with the external story and hence compatible with causal determinism is sufficient for grounding agents' moral responsibility.
