Divine and Conventional Frankfurt Examples

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dc.contributor.authorHaji, Ishtiyaque
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-12T23:07:25Z
dc.date.available2022-01-12T23:07:25Z
dc.date.issued2021-08-13
dc.description.abstractThe principle of alternate possibilities (PAP) says that you are morally praiseworthy or blameworthy for something you do only if you could have done otherwise. Frankfurt examples are putative counterexamples to PAP. These examples feature a failsafe mechanism that ensures that some agent cannot refrain from doing what she does without intervening in how she conducts herself, thereby supposedly sustaining the upshot that she is responsible for her behavior despite not being able to do otherwise. I introduce a Frankfurt example in which the agent who could not have done otherwise is God. Paying attention to the freedom requirements of moral obligation, the example is commissioned, first, to assess whether various states of affairs that are unavoidable for God can be obligatory for God and for which God can be praiseworthy. The example is, next, used to unearth problems with conventional Frankfurt examples that feature human agents. I argue that conceptual connections between responsibility and obligation cast suspicion on these examples. Pertinent lessons that the divine Frankfurt example helps to reveal motivate the view that divine foreknowledge and determinism, assuming that both preclude freedom to do otherwise, may well imperil obligation and responsibility.en_US
dc.description.grantingagencySocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)en_US
dc.identifier.citationHaji, I. (2021). Divine and Conventional Frankfurt Examples. Journal of Philosophical Theological Research, 23(3), 51-72. doi: 10.22091/jptr.2021.7186.2581en_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://dx.doi.org/10.22091/jptr.2021.7186.2581en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/114273
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/43689
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisher.departmentPhilosophyen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArtsen_US
dc.publisher.hasversionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen_US
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dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0en_US
dc.subjectblameworthinessen_US
dc.subjectdeterminismen_US
dc.subjectdivine Frankfurt exampleen_US
dc.subjectforeknowledgeen_US
dc.subjectobligationen_US
dc.subjectpraiseworthinessen_US
dc.titleDivine and Conventional Frankfurt Examplesen_US
dc.typejournal articleen_US
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