Self-forming actions, contrastive explanations, and the structure of the will.
Robert Kane's libertarian theory is often attacked on the grounds that undetermined self-forming actions are not amenable to contrastive explanation. I propose that we should understand contrastive explanations in terms of an appeal to structuring causes. Doing so reveals that Kane's claim that ther...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 197; no. 3; pp. 1225 - 1241 |
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