Doing one's best, alternative possibilities, and blameworthiness

Abstract

My main aim in this paper is to improve and give further support to a defense of the Principle of Alternative Possibilities (PAP) against Frankfurt cases which I put forward in some previous work. In the present paper I concentrate 011 a recent and famous Frankfurt case, Derk Pereboorn's "Tax Evasion". After presenting the essentials of my defense of PAP and applying it to this case, I go 011 to consider several objections that have been (or might be) raised against it and argue that they don't succeed. I conclude by pointing out that my criticism of Pereboom's example suggests a general strategy against other actual or possible Frankfurt cases.