Table of Contents

1. Introduction
Alfred Mele

2. The Origins and Development of Our Conception of Free Will
Alison Gopnik and Tamar Kushnir

3. Free Will without Metaphysics
Andrew E. Monroe and Bertram F. Malle

4. Free Will: Belief and Reality
Roy Baumeister, Cory Clark, and Jamie Luguri

5. Measuring and Manipulating Beliefs and Behaviors Associated with Free Will: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Jonathan Schooler, Thomas Nadelhoffer, Eddy Nahmias, and Kathleen Vohs

6. Incompatibilism and Bypassed Agency
Gunnar Björnsson

7. Naturalizing Free Will: Paths and Pitfalls
Hakwan Lau and Myrto Mylopoulos

8. "Free will": Components and Processes
Patrick Haggard

9. Change of Intention in "Picking" Situations
Ariel Furstenberg, Leon Y. Deouell, and Haim Sompolinsky

10. On Reporting the Onset of the Intention to Move
Uri Maoz, Liad Mudrik, Ram Rivlin, Ian Ross, Adam Mamelak, and Gideon Yaffe

11. Dissecting Readiness Potential: an Investigation of the Relationship Between Readiness Potentials, Conscious willing, and Action
Prescott Alexander, Alexander Schlegel, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Adina Roskies, Peter Ulric Tse, and Thalia Wheatley

12. Monkey Decision-Making as a Model System for Human Decision-Making
Adina Roskies

13. The Problem of Determinism and Free Will Is Not the Problem of Determinism and Free Will
Carolina Sartorio

14. On Being Some-One
J. T. Ismael

15. Negligent Action and Unwitting Omission
Randolph Clarke

Appendix: Free Will Lexicon
Patrick Haggard, Alfred Mele, Timothy O'Connor, and Kathleen Vohs

Contributors
Index

About the Author

Alfred R. Mele is the William H. and Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University. He is the author of eight books from Oxford University press: Irrationality (1987), Springs of Action (1992), Autonomous Agents (1995), Motivation and Agency (2003), Free Will and Luck (2006), Effective Intentions (2009), Backsliding (2012), and A Dialogue on Free Will and
Science (2014). He also is the editor of The Philosophy of Action (OUP 1997) and a coeditor of four other OUP volumes: Mental Causation (1993), The Oxford Handbook of Rationality (2004), Rationality and the Good (2007), and Free Will and Consciousness: How Might They Work? (2010).

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