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28Freedom, Will, and NatureProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 81 291-302. 2007.
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43Making Sense of a Free Will that is Incompatible with Determinism: A Fourth Way ForwardJournal of Philosophical Theological Research 23 (3): 5-28. 2021.For a half - century, I have been developing a view of free will that is incompatible with determinism and, in the process, attempting to answer the Intelligibility Question about such a free will: Can one make sense of an incompatibilist or libertarian free will without reducing it to mere chance, or mystery, and can such a free will be reconciled with modern views of the cosmos and human beings? In this paper, I discuss recent refinements to my earlier writings on such a view, refinements deve…Read more
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107Excerpts from John Martin Fischer's Discussion with Members of the AudienceThe Journal of Ethics 4 (4). 2000.
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Four Views on Free Will, Second Edition (2nd ed.)John Wiley & Sons. 2024.Four Views on Free Will is a robust and careful debate about free will, how it interacts with determinism and indeterminism, and whether we have it or not. Providing the most up-to-date account of four major positions in the free will debate, the second edition of this classic text presents the opposing perspectives of renowned philosophers John Martin Fischer, Robert Kane, Derk Pereboom, and Manuel Vargas. Substantially revised throughout, this new volume contains eight in-depth chapters, almos…Read more
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22The Significance of Free Will by Robert KaneThe Significance of Free Will (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 60 (1): 141. 2000.
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228Four Views on Free WillWiley-Blackwell. 2007.Focusing on the concepts and interactions of free will, moral responsibility, and determinism, this text represents the most up-to-date account of the four major positions in the free will debate. Four serious and well-known philosophers explore the opposing viewpoints of libertarianism, compatibilism, hard incompatibilism, and revisionism The first half of the book contains each philosopher’s explanation of his particular view; the second half allows them to directly respond to each other’s arg…Read more
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Two kinds of incompatibilismIn Timothy O'Connor (ed.), Agents, Causes, and Events: Essays on Indeterminism and Free Will, Oxford University Press. 1995.
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49Do We Have Free Will?: A DebateRoutledge. 2021.In this little but profound volume, Robert Kane and Carolina Sartorio debate a perennial question: Do We Have Free Will? Short, lively and accessible, the debate showcases diverse and cutting-edge work on free will.
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1Making sense of libertarian free will : consciousness, science and laws of natureIn Allan McCay & Michael Sevel (eds.), Free Will and the Law: New Perspectives, Routledge. 2019.
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250Two kinds of incompatibilismPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 50 (2): 219-54. 1989.The present essay is about this problem of the intelligibility of incompatibilist freedom. I do not think Kant, Nagel and Strawson are right in thinking that incompatibilist theories cannot be made intelligible to theoretical reason, nor are those many others right who think that incompatibilist accounts of freedom must be essentially mysterious or terminally obscure. I doubt if I can say enough in one short paper to convince anyone of these claims who is not already persuaded. But I hope to per…Read more
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62Responses to Bernard Berofsky, John Martin Fischer and Galen StrawsonThe Significance of Free WillPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 60 (1): 157. 2000.
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41Liberation from Self: A Theory of Personal AutonomyPhilosophical Review 106 (4): 599. 1997.Perhaps the best way to understand the novelty of Berofsky’s approach is to discuss two prevailing views about autonomy he rejects. On one of these views, we have the following picture: Autonomous agents develop powers to critically reflect upon and evaluate their past and present motivations. Such reflection inevitably leads to conflicts between reflective evaluation and existing motivation. The workaholic judges that he should spend more time with his family; the smoker does not want to have t…Read more
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59Interview by Simon CushingJournal of Cognition and Neuroethics (Philosophical Profiles). 2017.Simon Cushing conducted the following interview with Robert Kane on 24 August 2017.
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20Precis of The Significance of Free WillThe Significance of Free WillPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 60 (1): 129. 2000.
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62II—Acting ‘of One's Own Free Will’: Modern Reflections on an Ancient Philosophical ProblemProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 114 (1pt1): 35-55. 2014.Over the past five decades, I have been developing a distinctive view of free will according to which it requires that agents be to some degree ultimately responsible for the formation of their own wills. To act ‘of one's own free will’ in this sense is to act ‘from a will’ that is to some extent ‘of one's own free making’. A free will of this ultimate kind has been under attack in the modern era as obscure and unintelligible. In this paper, I discuss the arguments for such a view and compare it…Read more
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18New Directions on Free WillThe Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 2 135-142. 1999.Libertarian or incompatibilist conceptions of free will (according to which free will is incompatible with determinism) have been under withering attack in the modern era of Western philosophy as obscure and unintelligible and have been dismissed as outdated by many twentieth century philosophers and scientists because of their supposed lack of fit with modern images of human beings in the natural and human sciences. In a recent book (The Significance of Free Will), I attempt to reconcile incomp…Read more
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123Quantum Physics, Action and Free Will: How Might Free Will be Possible in a Quantum Universe?In Antonella Corradini & Uwe Meixner (eds.), Quantum Physics Meets the Philosophy of Mind: New Essays on the Mind-Body Relation in Quantum-Theoretical Perspective, De Gruyter. pp. 163-182. 2014.
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70Free Will: New Directions for an Ancient Problem: A Reply to Allen and RogersProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 81 291-302. 2007.Over the past three decades, I have been developing a distinctive view of free will motivated by a desire to reconcile a non-determinist view of free will with modern science as well as with recent developments in philosophy. A view of free will of the kind I defend did not exist in a developed form before the 1980s, but is now discussed in the philosophical literature as one of three chief options an incompatibilist or libertarian view of free will might take. As such, this view has been the su…Read more
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25Searching for Wisdom About the Good in Theory and PracticeSocial Theory and Practice 39 (2): 328-342. 2013.
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36Charles Hartshorne, 1897-2000Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 74 (5). 2001.An obituary notice outlining the main aspects of Charles Hartshorne's life, career, and thought.
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149Review. The dilemma of freedom and foreknowledge. Linda Trinkaus ZagzebskiMind 105 (419): 518-519. 1996.
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29Oxford Handbook on Free Will (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2001.This comprehensive reference provides an exhaustive guide to current scholarship on the perennial problem of Free Will--perhaps the most hotly and voluminously debated of all philosophical problems. While reference is made throughout to the contributions of major thinkers of the past, the emphasis is on recent research. The essays, most of which are previously unpublished, combine the work of established scholars with younger thinkers who are beginning to make significant contributions. Taken as…Read more
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37Free will, bound and unbound: reflections on Shaun Nichols’ boundPhilosophical Studies 174 (10): 2479-2488. 2017.Nichols’ Bound presents interesting new angles on traditional debates about free will and moral responsibility, relating them to the latest empirical research in psychology, social sciences and experimental philosophy. In experimental philosophy, he cites numerous recent studies showing that there are strong incompatibilist strands in folk intuitions about free will and responsibility, taking issue with other recent studies claiming that folk intuitions are predominantly compatibilist. But he al…Read more
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122The Oxford Handbook of Free Will: Second Edition (edited book)Oup Usa. 2011.This second edition of The Oxford Handbook of Free Will is intended to be a sourcebook and guide to current work on free will and related subjects.
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