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The Significance of Free Will

The Significance of Free Will Hardcover - 1996 - 1st Edition

by Kane, Robert

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Oxford University Press, USA, 1996. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title The Significance of Free Will
  • Author Kane, Robert
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 280
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
  • Date 1996
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0195105508I3N10
  • ISBN 9780195105506 / 0195105508
  • Weight 1.22 lbs (0.55 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.26 x 6.28 x 0.95 in (23.52 x 15.95 x 2.41 cm)
  • Reading level 1520
  • Library of Congress subjects Free will and determinism, Responsibility
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95049769
  • Dewey Decimal Code 123.5

From the publisher

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.

From the rear cover

In the past quarter-century, there has been a resurgence of interest in traditional philosophical questions about free will. The first of this book's aims is to explore the significance of this recent work, both for the advancement of understanding in one of philosophy's most perennially challenging areas, and for broad contemporary concerns in ethics, politics, science, religion, and humanistic studies. The book's second goal is to defend a classic "incompatibilist" or "libertarian" conception of free will in ways that are both new to philosophy and that respond to contemporary scientific learning. Incompatibilist or libertarian accounts of freedom are often criticized for being unintelligible or for having no place in the modern scientific picture of the world. Kane asserts to the contrary that a traditional view of free will (one that insists upon the incompatibility of free will and determinism) can be supported without the usual appeals to obscure or mysterious forms of agency and can be reconciled with recent developments in the sciences - physical, biological, neurological, cognitive, and behavioral.