The Significance of Free Will
The Significance of Free Will by Robert L. Kane
English | 1 Aug. 1998 | ISBN: 0195105508 | 280 Pages | EPUB | 461.48 KB
English | 1 Aug. 1998 | ISBN: 0195105508 | 280 Pages | EPUB | 461.48 KB
A magisterial work (that) culminates twenty-five years of thinking about the problems of free will. For those who believe both that robust free will cannot survive in a deterministic climate and that a viable free will need be scientifically respectable, Kane's work may prove salvific." – Mark Bernstein, University of Texas at San Antonio. In the past quarter-century, there has been a resurgence of interest in philosophical questions about free will. After a clear and broad-reaching survey of these recent debates, Robert Kane presents his own controversial view. Arguing persuasively for a traditional incompatibilist or libertarian conception of free will, Kane demonstrates that such a conception can be made intelligible without appeals to obscure or mysterious forms of agency and thus can be reconciled with a contemporary scientific picture of the world.