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Jul 3, 2024 |
mdpi.com | Joshua Spencer
1. IntroductionAccording to the Principle of Alternative Possibilities, someone is morally responsible for an action only if she could have done otherwise. More formally: (PAP) necessarily, for any person S and any action A, S is morally responsible for performing A only if there is some action A* such that S could have done A* while failing to do A. I, following Frankfurt [1] reject this principle. My argument against the principle involves the following time travel case [2] (p.
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