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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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142The Significance of Free Will by Robert KaneThe Significance of Free Will (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 60 (1): 141. 2000.
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2524Four 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 Usa. 1995.
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44Do 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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237Two 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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135Responses to Bernard Berofsky, John Martin Fischer and Galen StrawsonThe Significance of Free WillPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 60 (1): 157. 2000.
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31Liberation 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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57Interview 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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52Precis of The Significance of Free WillThe Significance of Free WillPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 60 (1): 129. 2000.
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114II—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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15New 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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112Quantum 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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69Free 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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19Freedom, Will, and NatureProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 81 291-302. 2007.
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23Searching 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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145Review. The dilemma of freedom and foreknowledge. Linda Trinkaus ZagzebskiMind 105 (419): 518-519. 1996.
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557Commentaries on David Hodgson's "a plain person's free will"Journal of Consciousness Studies 12 (1): 20-75. 2005.REMARKS ON EVOLUTION AND TIME-SCALES, Graham Cairns-Smith; HODGSON'S BLACK BOX, Thomas Clark; DO HODGSON'S PROPOSITIONS UNIQUELY CHARACTERIZE FREE WILL?, Ravi Gomatam; WHAT SHOULD WE RETAIN FROM A PLAIN PERSON'S CONCEPT OF FREE WILL?, Gilberto Gomes; ISOLATING DISPARATE CHALLENGES TO HODGSON'S ACCOUNT OF FREE WILL, Liberty Jaswal; FREE AGENCY AND LAWS OF NATURE, Robert Kane; SCIENCE VERSUS REALIZATION OF VALUE, NOT DETERMINISM VERSUS CHOICE, Nicholas Maxwell; COMMENTS ON HODGSON, J.J.C. Smart; T…Read more
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27Liberation from Self (review)Philosophical Review 106 (4): 599-601. 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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