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2. What is a concern with Frankfurt's theory of free will?

  • It is incompatible with determinism
  • Our second-order desires as well as first-order desires can be manipulated and come from questionable sources
  • Desires don't make us, us
  • It's a mesh account

3. What is not true about Susan Wolf's theory of free will?

  • If one is incapable of performing the morally right action then one cannot be blamed for one’s actions, but if one is incapable of performing a morally bad action for equivalent reasons, then one can still be praised for one’s actions
  • Everyday second-order desires can be shaped by external forces such as peer pressure, social norms and gender stereotyping
  • There has to be some kind of appropriate fit between desires and some higher-order feature such as morality
  • Only those deep selves that count as sane can ground truly free actions for which the agent can be held responsible

4. According to Wolf, when is someone not responsible for their actions?

  • Responsibility depends on the ability to act in accordance with the true and good
  • When they have been indoctrinated and manipulated so that they do not have the ability to act according to the true and good
  • You are responsive to reasons from the right kinds of external factors
  • When they do the right things for the wrong reasons

5. What is a mesh account?

  • There has to be some kind of appropriate fit between desires and some higher-order feature such as morality
  • We have reasons and rationality that come from the good
  • Our values can conflict with desires and passions, the values tell us what the right thing to do is irrespective of what our desires might be
  • the Reason View and the Sane Deep Self View

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