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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 ...
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Kane's most original contribution to the free-will debates...
- Can We Agree
Robert Kane Immanuel Kant Tomis Kapitan Walter Kaufmann...
- Free Will Questions
Your Basic Argument denies that an agent can be responsible...
- Randolph Clarke
Clarke defines additional new terms in his 2003 book...
- Harry Frankfurt
5. See Robert Kane, Free Will and Values (Albany, NY: SUNY...
- Galen Strawson
Galen Strawson developed a "Basic Argument" which attempts...
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This chapter distinguishes between compatibilism and incompatibilism about free will and causal determinism. It then explains the libertarian view of free will and moral responsibility. The chapter motivates this view of free will and outlines the particular libertarian view of Robert Kane.
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 says the agent can choose either way at random and yet preserve the sense of moral responsibility. As long as the agent is prepared to ...
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 · Robert Kane thinks libertarians cannot avoid luck problems without invoking the idea that in the moments leading up to an undetermined free choice the agent actually tries, wills, exerts effort, to do two or more competing different actions. Thus, he is critical of Balaguer’s view.
- John Lemos
- jlemos@coe.eu
- 2018
especially where the decisions are “torn” and involve moral or prudential considerations, Kane says that in these cases the agent must exert an effort to make a decision, indeed must make dual or plural efforts in defense of each option. The role of indeterminacy is to reduce the likelihood of some
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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.
