Libertarian Free Will

Abstract According to the libertarian position on free will and moral responsibility, people sometimes exercise free will and are morally responsible for what they do, but this freedom and responsibility is incompatible with the truth of causal determinism. Frequently maligned within the history of philosophy, this view has recently gained increasingly sympathetic attention among philosophers. But stark questions remain: How plausible is this view? If our actions are not casually determined, how can we have control over them? Why should we want our actions to be breaks in the deterministic causal chain? The recent resurgence of interest in libertarianism is due, most significantly, to Robert Kane, who is the leading contemporary defender of this view of free will. This book looks at the libertarian position on free will and relates issues that focuses specifically on the views of Kane.