Robert Kane is one of the most prominent contributors to debates on free will over the last 50 years. Here he discusses the evolution of his views since his 1996 volume The Significance of Free Will, and provides responses to some of the latest critical literature on them. He explains significant changes to his views on free will and related notions of moral responsibility, agency, and other related topics. He connects his ideas on free will to ethical thought, and to key ideas in the philosophy of religion. The volume is accessible to those not already familiar with the free will literature,…mehr
Robert Kane is one of the most prominent contributors to debates on free will over the last 50 years. Here he discusses the evolution of his views since his 1996 volume The Significance of Free Will, and provides responses to some of the latest critical literature on them. He explains significant changes to his views on free will and related notions of moral responsibility, agency, and other related topics. He connects his ideas on free will to ethical thought, and to key ideas in the philosophy of religion. The volume is accessible to those not already familiar with the free will literature, while also developing novel and complex ideas on difficult subjects.
Robert Kane is author of ten books and over eighty articles on the philosophy of mind, action, free will, ethics and values, including Free Will and Values (1985), Through the Moral Maze (1993), The Significance of Free Will (1996), and Ethics and the Quest for Wisdom (2010). He is editor of two editions of The Oxford Handbook of Free Will (2002 and 2011), among other edited volumes. In 1995, he was made an inaugural member of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers at UT Austin and in 2015 received a lifetime achievement award from Marquis' Who's Who.
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* Chapter 1: Introduction * Chapter 2: Compatibility and Significance Questions (Part I): The Freedom Path * Chapter 3: Compatibility and Significance Questions (Part II): The Responsibility Path * Chapter 4: The Intelligibility Question (Part I) * Chapter 5: The Intelligibility Question (Part II) * Chapter 6: The Libertarian Spectrum (Part I): Deliberative or Non-Centered Views * Chapter 7: The Libertarian Spectrum (Part II): Event-Causal Views, Centered and Non-centered * Chapter 8: The Libertarian Spectrum (Part III): Agent-causal and Non-causal Views * Chapter 9: The Compatibilist Spectrum * Chapter 10: Skepticism and Illusionism about Free Will and Moral Responsibility * Chapter 11: Ultimate Desert, The Dialectic of Selfhood, Kant's Three Questions, Aspiration, Eastern Views, Theism and Predestination * Endnotes * References * Index
