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By ultimate responsibility Kane means that the sources or origins of our actions lie "in us" rather than in something else (such as decrees of fate, foreordained acts of God, or antecedent causes and laws of nature) which are outside us and beyond our control.
Since his earliest book, Free Will and Values (1985), Kane has focused on free choices that have moral or prudential significance, as as well as those with m...
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Ultimate Responsibility (UR) is Robert Kane's concept that we can be responsible for current actions, ones that are essentially determined (this can only be adequate determinism, of course) by our character and values, as long as we formed that character ourselves by earlier free actions that he calls Self-Forming Actions.
Kane’s model for free will is designed to provide an agent with what he calls Ultimate Responsibility (UR), based on his idea of the Self-Forming Action. Kane’s importance in the history of the free will problem is fourfold. First, his event-causal free will model has in recent years been the libertarian model most often discussed, and the
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– freedom of the will: “being your own person,” with control over your desires, in a sense that gives you ultimate responsibility for what you do. In later chapters, Kane will argue that some accounts capture only surface freedom(s), or what he calls freedom of action, in contrast to free will.
