Deep Control: Essays on Free Will and Value

In This Follow Up To 'my Way And Our Stories' The Author Defends The Contention That Moral Responsibility Is Associated With 'deep Control'. Deep Control Is Defined As The Middle Ground Between Two Untenable Extreme Positions: 'superficial Control' And 'total Control'. Our Freedom Consists Of The Power To Add To The Given Past, Holding Fixed The Laws Of Nature, And Therefore, The Author Contends, We Must Be Able To Interpret Our Actions As Extensions Of A Line That Represents The Actual Past. Deep Control: The Middle Way -- The Frankfurt Cases: The Moral Of The Stories -- Freedom, Foreknowledge, And Frankfurt: A Reply To Vihvelin -- The Importance Of Frankfurt-style Argument -- Blame And Avoidability: A Reply To Otsuka -- Indeterminism And Control: An Approach To The Problem Of Luck -- The Direct Argument: You Say Goodbye, I Say Hello -- Conditional Freedom And The Normative Approach To Moral Responsibility -- Judgment-sensitivity And The Value Of Freedom -- Sourcehood: Playing The Cards That Are Dealt You -- Guidance Control -- The Triumph Of Tracing. John Martin Fischer. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.