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Helen Beebee (Manchester)
"Alternative possibilities and blameworthiness"

Some standard incompatibilist responses to Frankfurt’s alleged refutation of PAP are really only defences of the claim that blameworthiness requires alternative possibilities (APs), and not of the claim that acting freely requires APs. (In particular: Copp’s ‘ought implies can’ defence, Widerker’s ‘W-defence’, and the flicker defence.) Considered in this light, these defences really aren’t bad – and in particular the flicker defence is in much better shape than is standardly thought. However, once these ‘incompatibilist’ defences are considered in this light, Frankfurt’s argument – qua objection to the view that alternative possibilities are required for acting freely –is left completely intact. Bad news for incompatibilists!

Speaker:
Helen Beebee studied at Warwick (BA), Liverpool (MA) and King's College London (PhD). After a stay as postdoc at the Australian National University (1997-9) she spent some years as a professor at Birmingham (2005-12), where she I did stints as Head of Department (2005-8) and Head of School (2011-12).Today she holds the Samuel Hall Professorship of Philosophy at Manchester University.  - She is one of the co-editors of Philosophy and Phenomenological Research and an associate editor of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science and the new Journal of the American Philosophical Association; She's also on the editorial boards of Hume Studies and the Australasian Journal of Philosophy.

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