Moral Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities
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Moral Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities

Essays on the Importance of Alternative Possibilities

  1. 376 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Moral Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities

Essays on the Importance of Alternative Possibilities

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2017
eBook ISBN
9781351916721
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Philosophy History & Theory

Table of contents

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