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Notes
1. For a development of this contention, see Fischer and Ravizza Citation(1994). See also Fischer Citation(1994).
2. For some elaboration, see Fischer (Citation1994, forthcoming).
3. McKenna goes on to point out that Ravizza and I have certain resources available on the basis of which to reply to this problem, and he makes some helpful and insightful suggestions of his own. (No, I will not criticize McKenna's sympathetic attempt to respond on my behalf!!)
4. See Van Inwagen Citation(1983). For Lehrer's views, see, for example, Lehrer (Citation1976, Citation1980).
5. For a detailed discussion of these matters, see Fischer Citation(1979).
6. My point here is simply to distinguish the ability to do otherwise, in the ‘all-in’ sense of ‘can,’ from the possession of a general capacity (even one that cannot, in the circumstances, be exercised). I am not also contending that the pianist is in fact morally responsible for refraining from playing-this depends on whether he is aware of being chained to his desk, and the role these chains play in his deliberations.
7. I develop this point in Fischer Citation(2002).
8. See, especially, Fischer and Ravizza Citation(1998).
9. There is a more detailed development and defense of this sort of approach in Fischer Citation(2004a).
10. Amusingly, my father-in-law's (now deceased) former wife was nicknamed, ‘Chum’! She seemd to like this nickname.
11. I understand that the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) makes a distinction between ‘covert’ and ‘clandestine’ operations. In a covert operation, we are allowed to know that some intervention is taking place, but the source of the intervention is secret. In a clandestine operation, even the fact of the intervention is not supposed to be known. For me, ‘covert’ and ‘clandestine’ interventions are not phenomenologically detectable by the relevant agent, and he is otherwise unaware of the intervention.
12. There are also discussions of this principle in Fischer and Ravizza (Citation2000: part of a book symposium on J. M. Fischer and M. Ravizza, Responsibility and Control: A Theory of Moral Responsibility) and Fischer Citation(2004b).
13. I have spelled these out in some detail in Fischer Citation(2004b).
14. Of course, an incompatibilist may seek to supplement Transfer One-Path with other ingredients in order to generate the desired general result; but see Fischer Citation(2004b).