Moral responsibility without alternative possibilities
Book chapter
Stump, Eleonore. (2017). Moral responsibility without alternative possibilities. In Moral Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities: Essays on the Importance of Alternative Possibilities pp. 139-158 Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315199924
Authors | Stump, Eleonore |
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Abstract | A standard strategy for trying to show false the principle of alternative possibilities (PAP) – the principle that alternative possibilities for action are required for moral responsibility – is what has come to be known as a Frankfurt-style counterexample or a Frankfurt story, after Harry Frankfurt’s well-known kind of counterexample to PAP. The author proposed a Frankfurt story which is immune to the criticism of David Widerker’s. It is a revised version of a Frankfurt story presented earlier by John Martin Fischer. Fischer’s own example, like most Frankfurt stories, is vague about how the fictional coercive mechanism works and what it operates on; but for purposes of examining Widerker’s argument, it helps to spell out the details of the coercive mechanism and to consider the theory of mind that a Frankfurt story presupposes. For that reason, he revised Fischer’s example to make the operation of the coercive mechanism clearer. |
Keywords | Social Sciences |
Page range | 139-158 |
Year | 01 Jan 2017 |
Book title | Moral Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities: Essays on the Importance of Alternative Possibilities |
Publisher | Routledge |
Place of publication | United States |
Edition | 1 |
ISBN | 9781138425026 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315199924 |
Web address (URL) | https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315199924-9/moral-responsibility-without-alternative-possibilities-eleonore-stump?context=ubx&refId=4e01715a-4c68-43c6-89ef-e366d2703209 |
Open access | Published as non-open access |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 30 Sep 2019 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 20 Feb 2024 |
Deposited | 27 Feb 2024 |
Additional information | © Routledge, 2019. |
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