Robert Kane's Free Will Book
Robert Kane has just published an introductory book on Free Will in Oxford University Press's new series, Fundamentals of Philosophy (of which John Perry and I are general editors). This is, not surprisingly, an outstanding book, and highly recommended.
Congratulations to Robert Kane for this excellent book!
Other than Kane's introduction, is anything in this volume new (I'm trying to find out by looking at the table of contents on Amazon). I'm guessing that Derk's paper is part of his book-does anyone know if that is right, of if any of the other essays are new? Thanks.
Kevin
Posted by: Kevin Timpe | May 10, 2005 at 01:57 PM
Kevin, you seem to be looking at another book by Kane, perhaps an anthology. But he has just published an introductory monograph on Oxford University Press. That is the book to which I was referring. It is an excellent introductory book, and perfect for upper division courses. It is even good for those of us who have thought about the issues a bit!
Posted by: John Fischer | May 10, 2005 at 04:53 PM
If Kevin looked at Amazon, Amazon has some linking problms with this book: they link to the table of contents of Prof. Kane's Blackwell anthology with a similar title and in a series with a similar title too. Very misleading. But the text JMF is plugging is available. I expect my copy to arrive this week and I expect it to be a helpful text.
Posted by: Fritz Warfield | May 11, 2005 at 07:52 AM
Thanks John, Fritz and Derk for helping me figure out the confusion. Shame on Amazon.
Kevin
Posted by: Kevin Timpe | May 11, 2005 at 08:04 AM