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Kane’s Self-Forming Action (SFA) locates randomness (true quantum indeterminacy) in the “torn decision” of an agent between multiple possible actions, each of which has excellent justifying reasons that allows the agent to take full moral responsibility for the choice, however the decision comes out. He calls this “plural rational ...
Robert Kane developed the idea of dual rational control in the case of a “torn decision.” In a torn decision, an agent has equally powerful reasons for choosing either way between two alternatives.
Kane’s response rests, most centrally, on the claim that agents make “efforts of will” when acting freely and responsibly so that, whichever way they act, they voluntarily and rationally do something that they were trying to do.
Mar 25, 2012 · Some of Kane’s remarks seem to suggest that he thinks the Kane-conditions are strictly stronger than the condition of TDW-indeterminism, so that to satisfy the Kane-conditions, a torn decision needs to be TDW-undetermined and also satisfy some other conditions.
- Mark Balaguer
- mbalagu@exchange.calstatela.edu
- 2014
Nov 15, 2018 · Upon seeing the assault occur she immediately acquires the desire to stop and prevent the assault, but she also desires to go on to her important meeting. She realizes she cannot do both and she feels torn as to what she should do. According to Kane, in this kind of situation the agent actually tries/wills to do both acts.
- John Lemos
- jlemos@coe.eu
- 2018
The businesswoman in our example above must make a torn decision, as she is torn between the desire to go on to her business meeting and the desire to stop the assault.
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libertarian argument for the claim that a decision can be causally determined and still be L-free. Kane's idea, in essence, is that a decision can be derivatively L-free if it is causally determined by the agent having a certain character (or a.
