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Frankfurt cases and the Newcomb Problem

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jats:titleAbstract</jats:title> jats:pA standard argument for one-boxing in Newcomb’s Problem is ‘Why Ain’cha Rich?’, which emphasizes that one-boxers typically make a million dollars compared to the thousand dollars that two-boxers can expect. A standard reply is the ‘opportunity defence’: the two-boxers who made a thousand never had an opportunity to make more. The paper argues that the opportunity defence is unavailable to anyone who grants that in another case—a Frankfurt case—the agent is jats:italicdeprived</jats:italic> of opportunities in the way that advocates of Frankfurt cases typically claim.</jats:p>

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5003 Philosophy, 50 Philosophy and Religious Studies

Journal Title

Philosophical Studies

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Journal ISSN

0031-8116
1573-0883

Volume Title

177

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

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Leverhulme Trust (RF-2018-231\10)
Leverhulme Trust