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    Supports→A player's decision is not as free under eternalism as it would be if the future were ontologically open.

    If the player's choice is already ontologically settled in the block universe, deliberation is epiphenomenal, which Frankfurt's own conditions for moral responsibility presuppose it cannot be.

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    Frankfurt
    Frankfurt most commonly refers to **Frankfurt am Main**, a major city in Germany known as a global financial hub, home to the European Central Bank and many international banks. It's also famous for its historic architecture, museums, and its role as one of Europe's most important transportation and business centers. The name can also refer to **Harry Frankfurt**, an influential American philosopher known for his work on free will, moral responsibility, and human motivation—particularly his concept of "caring about what we care about."
    block universe(Contrasted with views on which the future is open or indeterminate)
    The view that past, present, and future all equally exist as a four-dimensional spacetime structure (eternalism)
    conditions for(philosophical logic—what needs to be present for moral responsibility to exist)
    The requirements or criteria that must be true for something to count as real or valid.
    deliberation(Aristotelian practical reasoning)

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    A form of practical reasoning in which an agent has some end and reasons to a sufficient means for achieving that end.
    epiphenomenal(Used to characterize the hypothetical judgment in Hardimon's view once the justice condition is isolated)
    Playing no genuine justificatory role; present in the account but doing no independent normative work
    moral responsibility(The author argues for a pluralistic understanding rather than a Kantian-exclusive one)
    A normative concept whose scope is contested; the passage implies it encompasses at least Kantian notions (centered on individual rational agency) and other notions (potentially sociological, collective, or non-individualist in character)
    ontologically settled(describing whether future events are already decided in reality)
    Already determined to be real or fixed as a matter of fact, rather than being open or undecided.

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