Robert Kane on the Psychology of Free Will
Robert Kane has been kind enough to allow us to post some remarks he gave on the psychology of free will at the 31st Annual Meeting of The Society of Philosophy and Psychology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, June 9-12, 2005. We don't have copies of the papers he was responding to, but the remarks should still be of interest in any case. Enjoy!
Kane's suggested distinction between initial intuitions pertinent to free will and those pertinent to responsibility seems to dovetails nicely with (and perhaps helps to clarify) the distinction Nietzsche seems to be making in GM 2.4 when he accuses "previous genealogists of morality" of failing to recognize that "punishment as *retribution* developed completely apart from any presupposition concerning freedom or lack of freedom of the will" since, he further claims, the kind of thinking associated with that "presupposition" requires a "*high* level of humanization" before "the animal 'man'" can integrate it into his punitive habits.
Posted by: Rob | July 16, 2005 at 09:14 AM