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1. The Examples 1. The Examples
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1.1. The Stump Example 1.1. The Stump Example
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1.2. The Hunt Example 1.2. The Hunt Example
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1.3. Another Omniscient Agent Example 1.3. Another Omniscient Agent Example
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2. Glimpses Beyond 2. Glimpses Beyond
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3. Conclusion 3. Conclusion
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Notes Notes
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14 Responsibility and Frankfurt-type Examples
Get accessDavid Widerker is professor at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. He has published widely on the topics of free will and moral responsibility. He is a coeditor (with Michael McKenna) of Moral Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities (2003). His recent articles include “Libertarianism and Frankfurt's Attack on the Principle of Alternative Possibilities” (Philosophical Review, 1995), “Frankfurt's Attack on the Principle of Alternative Possibilities: A Further Look” (Philosophical Topics, 2000), “Agent-Causation and the Control-Problem” (Faith and Philosophy, 2005), “Libertarianism and the Philosophical Significance of Frankfurt Scenarios” (The Journal of Philosophy, 2006), and “A Defense of Frankfurt-Friendly Libertarianism” (Philosophical Explorations, 2009).
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Published:02 September 2009
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Abstract
This article examines recent attempts to strengthen Frankfurt's argument against the Principle of Alternative Possibilities (PAP) by providing better examples of FR-situations. It considers these examples from a libertarian viewpoint and argues that they do not succeed either. Even if at one point a defender of Frankfurt might be able to come up with a genuine example of an FR-situation, avoidability would still remain a necessary condition for at least one important type of moral responsibility—that of moral blameworthiness. In the course of defending this last claim, the article defends a more comprehensive constraint on moral blameworthiness than avoidability, and then applies this constraint to meet a well-known recent objection to PAP by John Fischer.
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