Is It All Just a Matter of Luck?

Al Mele's Free Will and Luck is carefully and intelligently developed, beautifully clear, and persuasively makes a number of important points. That I say all that despite disagreeing with Al on most of the basic issues should suffice to convey my admiration for this fine work. The book is an extended essay on the way in which residual luck plagues a variety of accounts of agential or active control, threatening in different ways to undermine their claims to provide sufficient conditions on freedom of action and moral responsibility. Mele develops most fully the problem that luck is supposed to pose for different libertarian accounts of control (Chapter 3). His most striking claim (to me, anyways) is that the way in which control is exercised according to agentcausal accounts, no less than event-causal accounts, has the consequence that what obtains is still a matter of luck.