Agency, ownership of reasoning capacity for
...require that the mechanism yielding the decisions be the agent's own: this requires that the agent take responsibility for the mechanism by (1) seeing himself as the source of the decisions, (2) accepting he is a fair target for the “reactive attitudes” (praise and blame), (3) basing (1) and (2) appropriately on evidence. So, someone could take responsibility for decisions based on the oracle by (1) seeing himself as the source of decisions because he endorsed the oracle's reasons, making those reasons his own, (2) accepting praise or blame for the decision, and (3) doing so on the basis of appropriate evidence (e.g. evidence that he wasn't coerced).
Angus Menuge, Libertarian Free Will and the Argument from Reason, online essay
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