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nwagen and other incompatibilists claim. The Consequence Argument would show that determinism conflicts with anyone’s power to do oth. rw. se and thus conflicts with free will.3. An Objec. ion Concerning “Can” and “Power”The Consequence Argument is a powerful argument for the incompatibil-ity of free will and det.
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I. Ultimate Responsibility: Alternative Possibilities. I shall focus my critical comments on Kane's crucial notion of "ultimate responsibility"-and his condition "UR." Kane insightfully distinguishes between two separate neces-sary conditions for moral responsibility. First, many philosophers have
The idea is this: to be ultimately responsible for an action, the agent must be responsible for anything that is a sufficient reason (condition, cause or motive) for the action’s occurring.
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Oct 8, 2021 · Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-183) and index. The free will problem -- Compatibilism -- Incompatibilism -- Libertarianism, indeterminism and chance -- Minds, selves and agent causes -- Actions, reasons and causes -- Is free will possible? : hard determinists and other skeptics -- Moral responsibility and alternative possibilities ...
This chapter turns to the second and the more important criterion for free will, namely, ultimate responsibility. A series of theses are defended that explain what this criterion entails and why it is incompatible with determinism.
– 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.
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
