ABSTRACT
There is a set of challenges to the intuitive and natural picture of ourselves as having a certain sort of control. For certain incompatibilists about causal determinism and moral responsibility, the reason why determinism threatens moral responsibility is that it rules out alternative possibilities. In this chapter, the author urged that the method of seeking a reflective equilibrium between our general principles and particular judgments issue in principles that allow for the compatibility of causal determinism and moral responsibility. Various philosophers have thought that some sort of indeterministic ‘initiating capacity’ is required for moral responsibility. The author suggested that guidance control is the freedom-relevant condition sufficient for moral responsibility. He concludes that the context of the evaluation of the relationship between causal determinism and moral responsibility is crucially different from the context of the evaluation of the relationship between causal determinism and alternative possibilities.
