ABSTRACT
The three of the most widely discussed contemporary compatibilist theories: mesh theories, reasons-responsive theories, and leeway theories. This chapter focuses on Fischer and Ravizza's reasons-responsive theory, as theirs is the most comprehensive, has been the most influential, and has instigated a vast secondary literature. Fischer and Ravizza advance a version of the reasons-responsive view they call semicompatibilism. Frankfurt's argument against the alternative possibilities requirement has had a considerable influence on contemporary work on free will and moral responsibility. Like Frankfurt, Watson was interested in accounting for free agency in terms of a mesh between different elements within an agent's psychic structure. He offered a model based on a Platonic conception wherein judgment and evaluation can be a source of motivation. Recall the problem facing classical compatibilist accounts of freedom noted above they had inadequate resources to explain how freedom can be undermined from within an agent's own mental life.
