Robert Kane: The Significance of Free Will

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"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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Introduction

I. The Ascent Problem:Compatibility and Significance

2: Will

3: Responsibility

4: Alternative Possibilities

5: Ultimate Responsibility

6: Significance

II. The Descent Problem: Intelligibility and Existence

7: Plurality and Indeterminism

8: Moral and Prudential Choice

9: Efforts, Purposes, and Practical Reason

10: Objections and Responses

11: Conclusion

Notes

References

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	1998
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe , Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	Antike
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780195126563
ISBN-10:	0195126564
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Kane, Robert
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Robert Kane
Erscheinungsdatum:	18.03.1999
Gewicht:	0,459 kg