"Provides the most fully articulated, the most comprehensive, and the best case for libertarianism that has ever been devised."--Richard Double,
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania"A magisterial work [that] culminates twenty-five years of thinking about the problems of free will. For those who believe both that robust free will cannot survive in a deterministic climate and that a viable free will need be scientifically respectable, Kane's work may prove salvific."--Mark Bernstein,
University of Texas at San Antonio"For more than a decade Robert Kane has vigorously defended libertarian free will in prose and print.
Significance represents his definitive statement and it is a truly splendid book. Remarkably well organized and original,
Significance requires rethinking standard convictions in the freedom/determinism debate about explanation, causation, responsibility, and worth. It's a must read for philosophers, psychologists, and cognitive scientists."--George Graham,
University of Alabama at Birmingham"This is, quite simply, the most thoughtful and detailed defense of libertarianism currently available." --Alfred R. Mele,
Davidson College",,,complex and carefully argued..."--
Times Literary Supplement