This book was published in 2003. This book explores an important issue within the free will debate: the relation between free will and moral responsibility. In his seminal article "Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility", Harry Frankfurt launched a vigorous attack on the standard conception of that relation, questioning the claim that a person is morally responsible for what she has done only if she could have done otherwise. Since then, Frankfurt's thesis has been at the center of philosophical discussions on free will and moral responsibility. "Moral Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities", edited by David Widerker and Michael McKenna, draws together the most recent work on Frankfurt's thesis by leading theorists in the area of free will and responsibility. As the majority of the essays appear here for the first time, "Moral Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities" offers the newest developments in this important debate.

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Publisher

Routledge

Year

2018

eBook ISBN

9781351777513

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Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

Sociology

Index

Social Sciences

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Preface
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1 Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility
Chapter 2 Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities
Chapter 3 Blameworthiness and Frankfurt’s Argument Against the Principle of Alternative Possibilities
Chapter 4 In Defense of the Principle of Alternative Possibilities: Why I Don’t Find Frankfurt’s Argument Convincing
Chapter 5 Responsibility, Indeterminism and Frankfurt-style Cases: A Reply to Mele and Robb
Chapter 6 Classical Compatibilism: Not Dead Yet
Chapter 7 Bbs, Magnets and Seesaws: The Metaphysics of Frankfurt-style Cases
Chapter 8 Moral Responsibility without Alternative Possibilities
Chapter 9 Freedom, Foreknowledge and Frankfurt
Chapter 10 Source Incompatibilism and Alternative Possibilities
Chapter 11 Robustness, Control, and the Demand for Morally Significant Alternatives: Frankfurt Examples with Oodles and Oodles of Alternatives
Chapter 12 Alternate Possibilities and Reid’s Theory of Agent-causation
Chapter 13 Responsibility and Agent-causation
Chapter 14 Soft Libertarianism and Flickers of Freedom
Chapter 15 ‘Ought’ Implies ‘Can’, Blameworthiness, and the Principle of Alternate Possibilities
Chapter 16 The Moral Significance of Alternate Possibilities
Chapter 17 The Selling of Joseph – A Frankfurtian Interpretation
Chapter 18 Some Thoughts Concerning PAP
Bibliography
Index

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