The Frankfurt-style cases
Extinguishing the flickers of freedom
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21335348 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Martin Fischer (0000-0002-1685-4743, Department of philosophy, University of California, Riverside, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 1185-1209 |
| Publication date | 2022-10-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-174X • E-ISSN: 1502-3923 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0020174x.2021.1904640 |
| OpenAlex | W3145391038 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 39 |
The Frankfurt-style Counterexamples (FSCs) to the Principle of Alternative Possibilities (PAP) have been controversial. I sketch some of the major moves in the debates surrounding the FSCs, and I seek to provide an answer to a big challenge: the indeterministic horn of the ‘dilemma defense’. (Elsewhere I have addressed the deterministic horn.) Given indeterminism (at the relevant places), it is unclear how Black (the counterfactual intervener) can know with certainty what Jones will choose and do in the future; this leaves at least some open alternatives for Jones. I adopt the strategy of positing God in Black’s place (following others, such as David Hunt). The challenge now is to explain how God can have knowledge with certainty of future free human behavior in an indeterministic context, insofar as there is no entailing evidence in available in advance in such a situation. I present the Bootstrapping View of God’s knowledge to solve this problem. If we replace Black with God, we have an indeterministic case in which an agent acts freely, and yet cannot do otherwise. My account of God’s knowledge provides an interpretation of Luis de Molina’s notoriously obscure notion of Supercomprehension
Certainty · Compatibilism · Context (archaeology) · Counterfactual thinking · Determinism · Dilemma · Epistemology · Free will · French horn · Indeterminism · Interpretation (philosophy) · Sketch · Sociology · Computer Science · Free Will and Agency · History · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Theology and Philosophy of Evil
Living without Free Will
Causation and Free Will
Free Will, Agency, and Meaning in Life
Responsibility, Character, and the Emotions
Moral Responsibility and Buffered Alternatives
Alternative Possibilities and the Free Will Defence
The Frankfurt Cases
Ability and Responsibility
Divine Omniscience and Voluntary Action
Libertarianism and Frankfurt's Attack on the Principle of Alternative Possibilities
Uncompromising Source Incompatibilism
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |