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Frank did not have regulative control over his playing the banjo since Jerry's presence ensured that Frank play the banjo even if Jimi were to ask Frank to play his guitar.
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It seems, then, that for Frank to play the banjo of his own free will, Frank — the agent — must have regulative control and not merely guidance control over his playing.
As Fischer has it, an agent with regulative control can, so to speak, regulate between different alternatives.
Put in terms of guidance and regulative control, only blameworthy conduct requires regulative control.
But that is consistent with the incompatibility of determinism and regulative control.
So perhaps Bok could defend some notion of regulative control sans the classical compatibilists' conditional analysis.
Wolf's asymmetrical view differs from Frankfurt's since hers requires regulative control somewhere.
Grant that Frankfurt is correct that free will and moral responsibility do not require regulative control.
So Bok embraces regulative control in order to capture the freedom-relevant condition for moral responsibility.
That is, Frankfurt believes that it is guidance control that is necessary for moral responsibility, not regulative control.
It would merely mean that one argument for the incompatibility of determinism and regulative control is untenable.
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