Does reductivist event-causal compatibilism leave anything out? Lynne Baker’s reflective-endorsement and the bounds of the traditional analyses of moral responsibility

Promising to be the best companion for scientific naturalism, compatibilism usually espouses a reductivist event-causal background. Lynne Baker challenges this view, arguing that compatibilist moral responsibility also requires an irreducible “first-person perspective”. In this paper I will provide some arguments for claiming that (Frankfurttype) event-causal accounts cannot avoid making reference to some sort of agential properties. In the second part, I will present the proposals formulated by Nelkin and Markosian for defending agent-causation, before returning to the theme with which I began, this time considering Frankfurt’s view in the light of Baker’s reading.