A Frankfurt Example to End All Frankfurt Examples

Philosophia 42 (1):83-93 (2014)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

Frankfurt examples are frequently used in arguments designed to show that agents lacking alternatives, or lacking ‘regulative control’ over their actions, can be morally responsible for what they do. I will maintain that Frankfurt examples can be constructed that undermine those very arguments when applied to actions for which the agent bears fundamental responsibility

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

DOI

10.1007/s11406-013-9471-0

Other Versions

No versions found

Links

PhilArchive

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

Moral responsibility and omissions.Jeremy Byrd - 2007 - Philosophical Quarterly 57 (226):56–67.
Why Frankfurt-style cases don't help (much).Neil Levy - manuscript
Flickers of freedom and Frankfurt-style cases in the light of the new incompatibilism of the stit theory.Katarzyna Paprzycka - 2002 - Journal of Philosophical Research 27:553-565.
Divine and Conventional Frankfurt Examples.Ishtiyaque Haji - 2021 - Journal of Philosophical Theological Research 23 (3):51-72.
A Problem for Frankfurt Examples.Samuel J. M. Kahn - 2021 - Southwest Philosophy Review 37 (1):159-167.
The Principle of Alternate Possibilities as Sufficient but not Necessary for Moral Responsibility: A way to Avoid the Frankfurt Counter-Example.Garry Young - 2016 - Philosophia 44 (3):961-969.
A Fundamental Failure of Frankfurt’s Agentic Counterfactual Intervention: No Agency.Joseph de la Torre Dwyer - 2020 - Philosophia 49 (2):633-642.
The Kane-Widerker Objection to Frankfurt Examples.James Cain - 2014 - Philosophia 42 (4):949-957.
The (near) necessity of alternate possibilities for moral responsibility.Richard M. Glatz - 2008 - Philosophical Studies 139 (2):257-272.

Analytics

Added to PP
2013-08-01

Downloads
1,148 (#12,969)

6 months
206 (#18,581)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

James Cain
Oklahoma State University

Citations of this work

The Frankfurt-style cases: extinguishing the flickers of freedom.John Martin Fischer - 2022 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 65 (9):1185-1209.
The Elusiveness of Doxastic Compatibilism.Benjamin Bayer - 2015 - American Philosophical Quarterly 52 (3):233-252.

Add more citations

References found in this work

Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility.Harry G. Frankfurt - 1969 - Journal of Philosophy 66 (23):829-839.
Four Views on Free Will.John Martin Fischer, Robert Kane, Derk Pereboom & Manuel Vargas - 2007 - Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. Edited by John Martin Fischer.
My way: essays on moral responsibility.John Martin Fischer - 2006 - New York: Oxford University Press.
A Contemporary Introduction to Free Will.Robert Kane - 2005 - New York: Oxford University Press.

View all 23 references / Add more references