Argument

Frankfurt cases

Overview

Frankfurt cases (also known as Frankfurt counterexamples or Frankfurt-style cases) were presented by philosopher Harry Frankfurt in 1969 as counterexamples to the principle of alternate possibilities (PAP), which holds that an agent is morally responsible for an action only if that person could have done otherwise.

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Philosophers who discussed Frankfurt cases

• Harry Frankfurt

Related ideas

• Harry Frankfurt
• Philosophy
• A. J. Ayer
• Incompatibilism
• Moral responsibility
• Compatibilism
• Begging the question
• Free will
• Determinism
• Walter Terence Stace
• Daniel Dennett
• Robert Kane (philosopher)
• John Martin Fischer
• Michael Otsuka
• Carl Ginet

Place in the tradition

Part of Compatibilism.

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