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Prof. Robert Kane (University of Texas at Austin): The Complex Tapestry of Free Will: Agency, Will and Responsibility (Zoom)

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Abstract:

My goal in this paper is to provide an account of some of the more recent developments of my views on free will and responsibility, topics I have been writing on now for more than half a century. In doing so I address three central questions: the Compatibility Question: Is free will compatible or incompatible with determinism? the Significance Question: What kinds of freedom are "worth wanting"? and the Intelligibility Question: Can one make sense of a libertarian free will that is incompatible with determinism without reducing such an undetermined free will to mere chance or to mystery; and can such a free will be reconciled with what is known about humans and cosmos in the natural and human sciences? In pursuing these questions I defend such an incompatibilist view and in the process discuss different notions of freedom, including the distinction between freedom of action and freedom of will, different dimensions of responsibility, notions of self-formation, will-setting, agency, causation, control, power, voluntariness, intentional action, rationality and other related topics.

Speaker:

Robert Kane is University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Law Emeritus at The University of Texas at Austin. His writings on philosophy of mind and action, free will, moral and legal responsibi­lity, ethics and the theory of values, include Free Will and Values (State U of NY Press, 1985), Through the Moral Maze: Searching for Absolute Values in a Pluralistic World (Paragon, 1993), The Significance of Free Will (Oxford UP, 1996), A Contemporary Introduction to Free Will (Oxford UP, 2005), and Ethics and the Quest for Wisdom (Cambridge UP, 2010), among other books, and eighty articles on the above topics. He is editor of the The Oxford Handbook of Free Will (1st edition, 2002, 2nd, 2011), among other anthologies, and his audio lectures, The Quest for Meaning: Values, Ethics and the Modern Experience appear in the Great Lectures on Tape Series.

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Veranstaltungsdetails

24.11.2020, 18:30 Uhr - 20:15 Uhr
Institut für Theoretische Philosophie
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