Abstract
Abstract This chapter sets out and defends the conditions on the basic responsibility relation. It begins with an account of how agents exercise control through flexible and dynamic guidance by their representations. In this way, they have a say over what happens. The chapter distills the conditions on the basic responsibility relation by examining the considerations that undermine blameworthiness and praiseworthiness. When a result is due to an unguided spasm, or a proper accident or mistake, it is no longer to an individual’s credit or discredit. The features that are absent when these excusing considerations are present point to the necessary conditions on basic responsibility. Finally, those conditions are refined to account for certain complexities, and then connected to the mechanisms of basic agency. Satisfying the conditions on the basic responsibility relation requires only modest agential abilities.
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