"Responsiveness and Moral Responsibility" Self-Quiz

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. Which of the following best describes a Frankfurt-type case?

An agent is morally responsibility for acting but couldn't have done otherwise correct incorrect

The actual-sequence proceeds in a way that grounds responsibility; the alternative-sequence doesn't correct incorrect

Responsibility-undermining factors occur in the alternative-sequence but not the actual-sequence correct incorrect

All of the above correct incorrect

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. Which of the following isn't a way a mechanism can fail during the alternative-sequence, for Fischer?

Failure of receptivity correct incorrect

Failure of reactivity correct incorrect

Impotence correct incorrect

Failure of reasonableness correct incorrect

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. Fischer advocates which kind of theory of knowledge?

Compatibilist theory correct incorrect

Internalist theory correct incorrect

Actual-sequence theory correct incorrect

Alternative-sequence theory correct incorrect

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. How does Fischer explain the asymmetry of supervenience between responsibility and knowledge?

We tend to individuate mechanisms in action theory but not in knowledge correct incorrect

We tend to individuate mechanisms more finely in action theory than in knowledge correct incorrect

We tend to individuate mechanisms more loosely in action theory than in knowledge correct incorrect

We tend to individuate mechanisms in knowledge but not in action theory correct incorrect

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. Why is a (nonalcoholic) drunk driver morally responsible, according to Fischer?

The driver's mechanism is currently reason-responsive correct incorrect

There is a point in the driver's history when the driver's mechanism was reason-responsive correct incorrect

There is a fit between the driver's preferences and the driver's actions correct incorrect

There is no alternative-sequence in which the driver does otherwise correct incorrect

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. Fischer holds that an agent can be morally responsible for a neutral act.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. The causal history doesn't matter in determining moral responsibility, according to Fischer.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Fischer is skeptical about Frankfurt-type cases.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect