Frankfurt cases and the Newcomb Problem
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Peer-reviewed
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Ahmed, Arif https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7826-3335
Abstract
Abstract: A 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 deprived of opportunities in the way that advocates of Frankfurt cases typically claim.
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Article, Decision Theory, Newcomb’s Problem, Frankfurt cases, Free will
Journal Title
Philosophical Studies
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0031-8116
1573-0883
1573-0883
Volume Title
177
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
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Leverhulme Trust (RF-2018-231\10)