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In philosophy, debates about free will lead to issues about crime and punishment, blameworthiness and responsibility, coercion and control, mind and body, necessity and possibility, time and chance, right and wrong, and much more. In consequence, the free will problem is not fitted easily into one area of philosophy.
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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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Free Will & Responsibility. Get a hint. Robert Kane. Click the card to flip 👆. advocates for "libertarian freedom" position on free will (event-causal libertarian) position grounded in the notion of Ultimate Responsibility.
Robert Kane’s Libertarianism. Drawing on Aristotle’s notion of “ultimate responsibility,” Robert Kane argues that to be exercising a free will an agent must have taken some character forming decisions for which there were no sufficient conditions or decisive reasons.
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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.
