ABSTRACT
The aim of this chapter is to ground my positive proposal about freedom of the will in the next. That proposal rests on one assumption and purports to support two hypotheses. The assumption is that free will, whatever else it is, is a condition of agents’ responsibility for their actions and omissions. However, it may not be the condition of their responsibility for many other things. It is far from being obvious that freedom of the will is a condition of agents’ responsibility for their beliefs, desires, emotions, or the consequences of their actions. My assumption is that even if persons cannot believe, desire, or feel ‘of their own free will’, they are responsible agents exactly because, and to the extent that, their will is free.
