ABSTRACT
In the second section of the previous chapter, I argued against one important assumption that many libertarian theories of ultimate responsibility accept. Libertarians who believe in ultimate responsibility seem to assume that agents’ actions cannot be controlled by their choices unless they have confl icting motives or reasons. Against this assumption, I argued that motives are motives for agent’s actions and they can be responsible for their actions only if they can choose and do otherwise no matter how strong their motives are. One can have a choice only if one represents herself as being able to perform different actions. Having alternatives in this sensewhich is indeed a precondition of the ability to choose-does not, however, imply that one has to be motivated to perform both, or many, different types of actions. It only means that one has the capacity to control what one does by her choices.
