Moral Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities: Essays on the Importance of Alternative Possibilities
by McKenna,MichaelFormat: Nonspecific Binding
Pub. Date: 2016-04-07
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary
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.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | |
| Alternate possibilities and moral responsibility | |
| Responsibility and alternative possibilities | |
| Blameworthiness and Frankfurt's argument against the principle of alternative possiblities | |
| In defense of alternative possibilities: why I don't find Frankfurt's argument convincing | |
| Responsibility, indeterminism and Frankfurt-style cases: a reply to Mele and Robb | |
| Classical compatibilism: not dead yet | |
| BBs, magnets, and seesaws: the metaphysics of Frankfurt-style cases | |
| Moral responsibility without alternative possibilities | |
| Freedom, foreknowledge, and Frankfurt | |
| Source incompatibilism and alternative possibilities | |
| Robustness, control, and the demand for morally significant alternatives: Frankfurt examples with oodles and oodles of alternatives | |
| Alternate possiblities and Reid's theory of agent causation | |
| Responsibility and agent causation | |
| Soft libertarianism and flickers of freedom | |
| 'Ought' implies `can', blameworthiness, and the principle of alternate possibilities | |
| The moral significance of alternate possiblities | |
| The selling of Joseph - a Frankfurtian interpretation | |
| Some thoughts concerning PAP | |
| Index | |
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