Moral responsibility and the flicker of freedom / Justin A. Capes.

"This book addresses a longstanding controversy concerning whether Frankfurt cases-thought experiments of a sort devised by Harry Frankfurt-are counterexamples to the principle of alternative possibilities (roughly, the principle that a person is morally responsible for what he did only if he c...

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Main Author: Capes, Justin A. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2023]
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505 0 |a Cover -- Moral Responsibility and the Flicker of Freedom -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. A Flicker of Freedom -- 2. The Symmetry Argument -- 3. Objections and Replies -- 4. Frankfurt Cases -- 5. Confirmation Not Counterexample -- References -- Index 
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