according to compatibilism, that is how we control things. We are involved in the causal order. We are part of the way in which the past controls the future. And therein lies our responsibility. We can call this conception of control, inside control, control from inside nature. When we exercise inside control, the compatibilist holds, we are responsible for various events. And if we exercise that control badly, we may justly be held responsible for the upshot, and held to blame if blame is an appropriate reaction.
