Able to Do the Impossible
According to a widely held principle—the poss-ability principle—an agent, S, is able to Φ only if it is metaphysically possible for S to Φ. I argue against the poss-abilityprinciple by developing a novel class of counterexamples. I then argue that the consequences of rejecting the poss-a...
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Oxford University Press (OUP)
2018
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/115372 |