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Published: 23 July 2012
... and prudential obligation also require that we have alternatives. Blameworthiness presupposes Wrongness principle Moral Obligation Praiseworthiness presupposes Obligation principle PO Incompatibilism Pereboom D Vranas P Amoral normative status Frankfurt examples Moral Responsibility Frankfurt H Kant’s...
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Obligation Presupposes Alternatives: A Defense
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Ishtiyaque Haji
Published: 21 January 2016
... motivated by literature on Frankfurt examples, supererogation and suberogation, and specific and general abilities. Some of these objections target the “ought” implies “can” principle, an essential ingredient in the argument that obligation requires that one could have done otherwise. The response...
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Forgiveness and Freedom to Do Otherwise
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Ishtiyaque Haji
Published: 17 June 2021
... Warmke B blameworthiness duties of reparation economic model Frankfurt examples free will impermissibility prima facie obligation semicompatibilism suberogatory acts Let’s say that one has free will with respect to an action if and only if one can both perform it and refrain from performing...
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Obligation Under Threat
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Ishtiyaque Haji
Published: 21 January 2016
...The chapter begins by drawing on an important lesson from Frankfurt examples: obligation is susceptible to luck because obligation requires alternatives, and whether one has alternatives in apt Frankfurt examples is beyond one’s control. Next, a principle, Motivation/Ability , which...
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Some Thoughts on the Metaphysics of Free Will
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Ishtiyaque Haji
Published: 21 January 2016
...This chapter discusses lessons that the sort of constrained skepticism about responsibility that has been argued for in previous chapters has for the traditional dilemma concerning determinism and free will or responsibility. Frankfurt examples are defended against various objections. It is argued...
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6 Reasons-Responsiveness, Agents, and Mechanisms
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Michael McKenna
Published: 15 August 2013
..., these two compatibilist-friendly theses do not appear to make comfortable bedfellows. Recall Jones from the Frankfurt example presented earlier. Jones, says the source compatibilist, acted freely. But due to Black’s presence, whatever reasons might have been put to Jones, it is not the case that he would...
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Published: 14 February 2022
... the following structure. In response to the challenge from Frankfurt examples, defenders of the alternative-possibilities requirement have advanced a number of counterstrategies. One involves contending that despite initial impressions, the example does feature a relevant alternative possibility after all; John...
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