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10Complete blockage Frankfurt examples and the Principle of Alternative PossibilitiesPhilosophical Explorations 24 (2): 174-184. 2021.ABSTRACT According to the ‘Principle of Alternative Possibilities’, an agent is morally responsible for performing some action only if she could have done otherwise. Beginning with Harry Frankfurt nearly fifty years ago, a number of putative counterexamples have been offered. In this essay, I consider a type of counterexample developed by David Hunt: so-called ‘complete blockage’ Frankfurt examples. The chief objection to these cases is that they presuppose causal determinism, thereby begging th…Read more
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University of California, Santa BarbaraDepartment of Philosophy, University of California, Santa BarbaraOther
Spokane, Washington, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
Metaphysics |