The significance of free will / Robert Kane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kane, Robert, 1938-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Free will and determinism.

Responsibility.

Physical Description:

268 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.

Summary:

"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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-257) and index.

ISBN:

0195105508

OCLC:

33971501