Frankfurt cases, alternative possibilities and agency as a two-way power

Rescuing Frankfurt-Style Cases

Power Allocation Strategies in Block-Fading Two-Way Relay Networks

This paper aims at investigating the superiority of power allocation strategies, based on calculus of variations in a point-to-point two-way relay-assisted channel incorporating the amplify and forward strategy. Single and multilayer coding strategies for two cases of having and not having the channel state information (CSI) at the transmitters are studied, respectively. Using the notion of cal...

Power of Design Agency in Building and Sustaining Collaboration: Two Cases in São Paulo

Design research has considered the power of collaboration in terms of the politics of artefacts, services and practices to build or to support publics. Working within a framework of “commons” as continuing processes of negotiation in collaboration, this study asks: How can design skills and agency build up collaborative capacities in urban communities for sustained processes of social innovatio...

Why Frankfurt-Style Cases Don’t Help (Much)

Contemporary debates about free will and moral responsibility frequently focus on arguments around Frankfurt-style cases (FSCs). Their centrality reflects the fact that they have widely been seen to constitute a decisive step forward in a debate that had seemed to be irredeemably bogged down. In Fischer’s (1994) influential phrase, they break the ‘dialectical stalemate’ that had come to be char...

Pretrial publicity and civil cases: a two-way street?

Published pretrial publicity (PTP) research has been conducted almost exclusively with criminal cases and has focused on PTP that is detrimental to the defense. The current research examined the effects of PTP in a civil case to determine if PTP can have a biasing effect against either the defendant or the plaintiff in civil litigation. In Experiment 1, participants exposed to PTP biased agains...