ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that the ability that is crucial to responsibility is in fact the ability to act in accordance with Reason, as opposed to both the ability to act in accordance with one's Real Self and the ability to act autonomously. A better understanding of this position will emerge from a comparison between this view and the Real Self and Autonomy views. For the spirit of the Autonomy View, it might be said, is to deny that responsibility is compatible with being fated to live one's life along a preordained track. In light of the remarks, one might see the Reason View as an intermediary, though not a compromise, between the Real Self View and the Autonomy View. Since, according to the Reason View, responsibility for bad action does depend on such judgments, the Reason View implies that people are not always in a position to know whether an agent is responsible and blameworthy.
