Making Sense of a Free Will that is Incompatible with Determinism: A Fourth Way Forward | ||
| پژوهشهای فلسفی -کلامی | ||
| دوره 23، شماره 3 - شماره پیاپی 89، مهر 1400، صفحه 5-28 اصل مقاله (1.83 M) | ||
| نوع مقاله: مقاله علمی پژوهشی | ||
| شناسه دیجیتال (DOI): 10.22091/jptr.2021.7247.2595 | ||
| نویسنده | ||
| Robert Kane* | ||
| Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Texas, Austin. USA. | ||
| چکیده | ||
| For a half - century, I have been developing a view of free will that is incompatible with determinism and, in the process, attempting to answer the Intelligibility Question about such a free will: Can one make sense of an incompatibilist or libertarian free will without reducing it to mere chance, or mystery, and can such a free will be reconciled with modern views of the cosmos and human beings? In this paper, I discuss recent refinements to my earlier writings on such a view, refinements developed in recent years in response to the large critical literature on my views in the past several decades. My view has usually been designated an event-causal (EC) view of libertarian free will and distinguished from non-causal (NC) and agent-causal (AC) libertarian views. But I was never happy with this designation of my view as “event-causal” and did not use it myself in earlier writings. In this paper, I explain why I now reject it altogether. I have come to believe that to avoid numerous misunderstandings in current debates about free will, we must distinguish four different kinds of libertarian theories, not merely three: in addition to non-causal (NC), agent-causal (AC), and event-causal (EC) theories, we need to add a fourth kind, which might be called an agent-causal/event-causal (AC/EC) theory. My view has always been of this fourth kind. It represents what I call in the title of this paper the “fourth way forward” for making sense of an incompatibilist free will. | ||
| کلیدواژهها | ||
| Free will؛ Incompatibilism؛ Libertarianism؛ Agent-causal؛ Event-causal؛ Non-causal؛ Determinism | ||
| عنوان مقاله [English] | ||
| Making Sense of a Free Will that is Incompatible with Determinism: A Fourth Way Forward | ||
| نویسندگان [English] | ||
| Robert Kane | ||
| Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Texas, Austin. USA. | ||
| چکیده [English] | ||
| For a half - century, I have been developing a view of free will that is incompatible with determinism and, in the process, attempting to answer the Intelligibility Question about such a free will: Can one make sense of an incompatibilist or libertarian free will without reducing it to mere chance, or mystery, and can such a free will be reconciled with modern views of the cosmos and human beings? In this paper, I discuss recent refinements to my earlier writings on such a view, refinements developed in recent years in response to the large critical literature on my views in the past several decades. My view has usually been designated an event-causal (EC) view of libertarian free will and distinguished from non-causal (NC) and agent-causal (AC) libertarian views. But I was never happy with this designation of my view as “event-causal” and did not use it myself in earlier writings. In this paper, I explain why I now reject it altogether. I have come to believe that to avoid numerous misunderstandings in current debates about free will, we must distinguish four different kinds of libertarian theories, not merely three: in addition to non-causal (NC), agent-causal (AC), and event-causal (EC) theories, we need to add a fourth kind, which might be called an agent-causal/event-causal (AC/EC) theory. My view has always been of this fourth kind. It represents what I call in the title of this paper the “fourth way forward” for making sense of an incompatibilist free will. | ||
| کلیدواژهها [English] | ||
| Free will, Incompatibilism, Libertarianism, Agent-causal, Event-causal, Non-causal, Determinism | ||
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