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In this little but profound volume, Robert Kane and Carolina
Sartorio debate a perennial question: Do We Have Free Will? Kane
introduces and defends libertarianism about free will: free will is
incompatible with determinism; we are free; we are not determined.
Sartorio introduces and defends compatibilism about free will: free
will is compatible with determinism; we can be free even while our
actions are determined through and through. Simplifying tricky
terminology and complicated concepts for readers new to the debate,
the authors also cover the latest developments on a controversial
topic that gets us entangled in questions about blameworthiness and
responsibility, coercion and control, and much more. Each author
first presents their own side, and then they interact through two
rounds of objections and replies. Pedagogical features include
standard form arguments, section summaries, bolded key terms and
principles, a glossary, and annotated reading lists. Short, lively
and accessible, the debate showcases diverse and cutting-edge work
on free will. As per Saul Smilansky's foreword, Kane and Sartorio,
"present the readers with two things at once: an introduction to
the traditional free will problem; and a demonstration of what a
great yet very much alive and relevant philosophical problem is
like." Key Features: Covers major concepts, views and arguments
about free will in an engaging format Accessible style and
pedagogical features for students and general readers Cutting-edge
contributions by preeminent scholars on free will.
In this little but profound volume, Robert Kane and Carolina
Sartorio debate a perennial question: Do We Have Free Will? Kane
introduces and defends libertarianism about free will: free will is
incompatible with determinism; we are free; we are not determined.
Sartorio introduces and defends compatibilism about free will: free
will is compatible with determinism; we can be free even while our
actions are determined through and through. Simplifying tricky
terminology and complicated concepts for readers new to the debate,
the authors also cover the latest developments on a controversial
topic that gets us entangled in questions about blameworthiness and
responsibility, coercion and control, and much more. Each author
first presents their own side, and then they interact through two
rounds of objections and replies. Pedagogical features include
standard form arguments, section summaries, bolded key terms and
principles, a glossary, and annotated reading lists. Short, lively
and accessible, the debate showcases diverse and cutting-edge work
on free will. As per Saul Smilansky's foreword, Kane and Sartorio,
"present the readers with two things at once: an introduction to
the traditional free will problem; and a demonstration of what a
great yet very much alive and relevant philosophical problem is
like." Key Features: Covers major concepts, views and arguments
about free will in an engaging format Accessible style and
pedagogical features for students and general readers Cutting-edge
contributions by preeminent scholars on free will.
In this volume, Carolina Sartorio makes the case for big-picture
causalism: a naturalistic conception of agency and free agency that
unifies the two phenomena under a common thesis. This is the thesis
that actions/free actions are behaviors that have the right kinds
of causes or explanations. The book discusses how a causalist view
of action and free action fit together—the latter as a natural
extension of the former—and how they are motivated by similar
considerations having to do with causal control. The result is a
compelling "package deal" view of our practical agency, one that is
put forth as the default view (the view that deserves to be
regarded as the starting point of our theorizing). Sartorio
examines both the skeleton of the causalist view as well as
potential enrichments that result from exploiting the grounds of
the relevant causal facts. The discussion is enriched by an account
of the role played in causalism by key metaphysical notions such as
causation, grounding, absences, and powers.
Carolina Sartorio argues that only the actual causes of our
behaviour matter to our freedom. Although this simple view of
freedom clashes with most theories of responsibility, including the
most prominent 'actual sequence' theories currently on offer,
Sartorio argues for its truth. The key, she claims, lies in a
correct understanding of the role played by causation in a view of
that kind. Causation has some important features that make it a
responsibility-grounding relation, and this to the success of the
view. Also, when agents act freely, the actual causes are richer
than they appear to be at first sight; in particular, they reflect
the agents' sensitivity to reasons, where this includes both the
existence of actual reasons and the absence of other
(counterfactual) reasons. So acting freely requires more causes and
quite complex causes, as opposed to fewer causes and simpler
causes, and is compatible with those causes being deterministic.
The book connects two different debates, the one on causation and
the one on the problem of free will, in new and illuminating ways.
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