Abstract
This paper is a contribution to a symposium on John Fischer's MY WAY. In much of that work, Fischer says, he aims to show the "resiliency of our fundamental conception of ourselves as possessing control and being morally responsible agents," and particularly the compatibility of that conception with determinism. I argue that his conclusions leave several
important aspects of our ordinary conception of our agency hostage to
determinism. Further, there is significant tension between certain of his
views. I’ll suggest that our self-conception might be resilient in some
ways that receive little emphasis from Fischer, and that it might need
alteration in some unacknowledged respects.