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Countering Cova: Frankfurt-Style Cases are Still Broken.

The article presents counterarguments on philosopher Florian Cova's view on "Frankfurt-style cases user manual," who presented two kinds of Frankfurt-style arguments against the principle of alternative possibilities and argued that the author's attack on the soundness of Frankfurt-style cases succe...

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Published in:Ethical Theory & Moral Practice Vol. 17; no. 3; pp. 523 - 528
Main Author: Levy, Neil
Format: Letter
Published: Springer Nature Jun2014
Subjects:
Possibility
Counterarguments
Responsibility
Philosophy
Scholars
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