1 Nagel (1979) describes four types of moral luck: constitutive (luck in the kind of person one is); circumstantial (luck in the problems and situations one faces); luck in how the will is determind by antecedent circumstances; and luck in the way one's actions and projects turn out (28). The first and third types are often seen, correctly, as representing the metaphysical problem of freedom and determinism, while the second and fourth have drawn most interest as representing the problem of moral luck proper. Nagel's and Williams's discussions (the latter's" Gauguin problem" being of the fourth type) are the locus of the contemporary debate.