ABSTRACT
In the previous chapter, I argued for a conditional analysis of freedom of the will. Although most critics of the conditional analysis have complained that it leaves some important condition of free will and responsibility unspecifi ed, some others have objected that the analysis demands more than our responsibility in fact requires. It is not obvious, they say, that agents’ ability to do otherwise is indeed a necessary condition of responsibility. We shall consider objections of the former sort in Part II. The present chapter addresses the issue whether the ability to do otherwise is indeed a necessary condition of responsibility.
