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<p>In his latest book, <i>The Complex Tapestry of Free Will</i> (2024), Robert Kane builds on previous workof his in developing a novel libertarian position on free will. Alfred Mele (2017)presents a libertarian view that is argued to be superior to the view Kane heldat that time. Kane’s latest view avoids the main problem raised in Mele 2017, butother problems are raised for it here. It is argued that a version of the libertarianview presented in Mele 2017 that is modified to match an important modificationKane makes in his own view is superior to Kane’s new view. Topics discussedinclude the nature of decision-making, necessary conditions for freely decidingto do something, problems luck apparently poses for deciding freely, being ableto decide what to do, and what agents are trying to do when they deliberateabout what to do.</p>

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Two Libertarian Theories, Round Two: or Why Libertarians Should Prefer the Libertarian View Floated Here to Robert Kane’s New View

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    2026年6月24日

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In his latest book, The Complex Tapestry of Free Will (2024), Robert Kane builds on previous workof his in developing a novel libertarian position on free will. Alfred Mele (2017)presents a libertarian view that is argued to be superior to the view Kane heldat that time. Kane’s latest view avoids the main problem raised in Mele 2017, butother problems are raised for it here. It is argued that a version of the libertarianview presented in Mele 2017 that is modified to match an important modificationKane makes in his own view is superior to Kane’s new view. Topics discussedinclude the nature of decision-making, necessary conditions for freely decidingto do something, problems luck apparently poses for deciding freely, being ableto decide what to do, and what agents are trying to do when they deliberateabout what to do.