The Significance of Free Will

This is, quite simply, the most thoughtful and detailed defense of libertarianism currently available.

Klappentext
"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.

Zusammenfassung
This is a paperback reprint of a cloth edition. Kane explores the significance of recent work about free will for contemporary concerns in ethics, politics, science, and religion, and also defends a "libertarian" conception of free wlil in a way that responds to contemporary scientific learning.

Inhalt
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

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