In this paper, we identify a class of responses to cases of manipulation that we label manipulator-focused views. The key insight of such views is that being subject to the will of another agent significantly affects our freedom and moral responsibility. Though different authors take this key insight in different directions, and the mechanics of their views are quite different, these views turn out to share many key components, and this allows us to discuss several authors’ views at the same time, highlighting a variety of challenges for such views and helping to identify pitfalls to avoid in further developments of views of this type. Moreover, as we survey manipulator-focused views and the challenges that plague them, we go beyond the typical problem cases for such views—natural force variations of manipulation cases—and introduce several new manipulation cases. We conclude by comparing the prospects for this family of views with its main rival, namely bypassing views.

在本文中，我们确定了一类对操作案例的响应，我们将其标记为以操纵器为中心的视图。这些观点的关键见解是，受制于另一个主体的意志会显着影响我们的自由和道德责任。尽管不同的作者从不同的方向看待这一关键见解，并且他们的观点的机制也大相径庭，但这些观点最终共享许多关键组成部分，这使我们能够同时讨论几位作者的观点，突出这些观点面临的各种挑战，并有助于识别在进一步发展此类观点时要避免的陷阱。此外，当我们调查以操纵者为中心的视图和困扰它们的挑战时，我们超越了此类视图的典型问题案例——操纵案例的自然力变化——并引入了几个新的操纵案例。最后，我们将这类观点的前景与其主要竞争对手（即绕过观点）进行了比较。