Robert Kane is University Distinguished Teaching Professor of Philosophy Emeritus and Professor of Law at the University of Texas at Austin. He is author of Free Will and Values, Through the Moral Maze, The Significance of Free Will, A Contemporary Introduction to Free Will, and Ethics and the Quest for Wisdom, among other works on mind and action, free will, ethics, and value theory.
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* Contributors * 1. Introduction: The Contours of Contemporary Free Will Debates * PART I: THEOLOGY AND FREE WILL * 2. Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom * PART II: PHYSICS, DETERMINISM AND INDETERMINISM * 3. Quantum Physics, Consciousness and Free Will * 4. Chaos, Indeterminism and Free Will * 5. The Causal Closure of Physics * PART III: THE CONSEQUENCE ARGUMENT FOR INCOMPATIBILISM * 6. The Consequence Argument Revisited * 7. A Compatibilist Reply to the Consequence Argument * PART IV: COMPATIBILIST PERSPECTIVES ON FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY * 8. Compatibilism Without Frankfurt: Dispositional Analyses of Free Will * 9. Contemporary Compatibilism: Mesh Theories and Reasons-Responsive Theories * 10. Moral Sense and the Foundations of Responsibility * 11. Whose Still Afraid of Determinism? Rethinking Causes and Possibilities * PART V: MORAL RESPONSIBILITY, ALTERNATIVE POSSIBILITIES AND FRANKFURT-TYPE EXAMPLES * 12. Frankfurt-type Examples and Semi-Compatibilism * 13. Frankfurt-friendly Libertarianism * 14. Obligation, Reason and Frankfurt Examples * PART VI: LIBERTARIAN PERSPECTIVES ON FREE AGENCY AND FREE WILL * 15. Agent-Causal Theories of Freedom * 16. Alternatives for Liberarians * 17. Freedom and Action Without Causation: Noncausal Theories of Freedom and Purposive Agency * 18. Free Will is Not a Mystery * 19. Rethinking Free Will: New Perspectives on an Ancient Problem * PART VII: FURTHER VIEWS AND ISSUES: HARD DETERMINISM, HARD INCOMPATIBILISM, ILLUSIONISM, REVISIONISM, PROMISES AND ROLLBACKS * 20. Free Will Skepticism and Meaning in Life * 21. Free Will, Fundamental Dualism and the Centrality of Illusion * 22. Effects, Determinism, Neither Compatibilism Nor Incompatibilism, Consciousness * 23. Revisionist Accounts of Free Will: Origins, Varieties and Challenges * 24. A Promising Argument * 25. Rollbacks, Endorsement and Indeterminism * 26. Free Will and Science * 27. Contributions of Neuroscience to the Free Will Debate * 28. Free Will and the Bounds of the Self * 29. Intuitions about Free Will, Determinism and Bypassing * References * Index
* Contributors * 1. Introduction: The Contours of Contemporary Free Will Debates * PART I: THEOLOGY AND FREE WILL * 2. Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom * PART II: PHYSICS, DETERMINISM AND INDETERMINISM * 3. Quantum Physics, Consciousness and Free Will * 4. Chaos, Indeterminism and Free Will * 5. The Causal Closure of Physics * PART III: THE CONSEQUENCE ARGUMENT FOR INCOMPATIBILISM * 6. The Consequence Argument Revisited * 7. A Compatibilist Reply to the Consequence Argument * PART IV: COMPATIBILIST PERSPECTIVES ON FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY * 8. Compatibilism Without Frankfurt: Dispositional Analyses of Free Will * 9. Contemporary Compatibilism: Mesh Theories and Reasons-Responsive Theories * 10. Moral Sense and the Foundations of Responsibility * 11. Whose Still Afraid of Determinism? Rethinking Causes and Possibilities * PART V: MORAL RESPONSIBILITY, ALTERNATIVE POSSIBILITIES AND FRANKFURT-TYPE EXAMPLES * 12. Frankfurt-type Examples and Semi-Compatibilism * 13. Frankfurt-friendly Libertarianism * 14. Obligation, Reason and Frankfurt Examples * PART VI: LIBERTARIAN PERSPECTIVES ON FREE AGENCY AND FREE WILL * 15. Agent-Causal Theories of Freedom * 16. Alternatives for Liberarians * 17. Freedom and Action Without Causation: Noncausal Theories of Freedom and Purposive Agency * 18. Free Will is Not a Mystery * 19. Rethinking Free Will: New Perspectives on an Ancient Problem * PART VII: FURTHER VIEWS AND ISSUES: HARD DETERMINISM, HARD INCOMPATIBILISM, ILLUSIONISM, REVISIONISM, PROMISES AND ROLLBACKS * 20. Free Will Skepticism and Meaning in Life * 21. Free Will, Fundamental Dualism and the Centrality of Illusion * 22. Effects, Determinism, Neither Compatibilism Nor Incompatibilism, Consciousness * 23. Revisionist Accounts of Free Will: Origins, Varieties and Challenges * 24. A Promising Argument * 25. Rollbacks, Endorsement and Indeterminism * 26. Free Will and Science * 27. Contributions of Neuroscience to the Free Will Debate * 28. Free Will and the Bounds of the Self * 29. Intuitions about Free Will, Determinism and Bypassing * References * Index
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