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Making the mechanism too responsive to reasons (via strong reasons-responsiveness) sets the bar too high.
In other words, we must accept the incompatibilist thesis that if a person's character is the product of forces over which he never had any control, and if his character traits determine his choices, then even if his motives are responsive to reasons, he is not responsible for their motivating force.
The view is not merely that an agent would display herself in some counterfactual situations to be responsive to reasons, but rather that her responsiveness to reasons in some counterfactual situations is evidence that her actual conduct itself — the causes giving rise to it — is also in response to rational considerations.
One well known account of control, employed by Levy, holds that a person is responsible just in case she acts on a mechanism that is moderately responsive to reasons (including moral reasons), such that were she to possess such reasons this same mechanism would act upon those reasons in at least one possible world (Fischer and Ravizza 1999).
We know people are responsive to reasons.
If it would, then that very mechanism is responsive to reasons.
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In virtue of their natural capacities, creatures like us are potentially dialogical, that is, responsive to reason.
McDowell aims to conceive of persons as biologically embodied temporal creatures immersed in a shared world, yet capable by nature of being responsive to reason and thus of becoming free subjects.
Another measure of the distance between them is the difference between Rorty's avowedly ethnocentric defense of liberal ideals, and Gadamer's notion of the appropriation of tradition as a way of being responsive to reason.
The most natural way to understand a reasons-responsive theory is in terms of an agent's responsiveness to reasons.
Whatever the morally relevant reasons that bear on divine agency, that agency is perfectly responsive to those reasons.
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