Introduction
I. The Free Will Problem - Real or illusory?
1. Thomas Nagel - Moral Luck
2. Daniel Dennett - Please Don't Feed the Bugbears
II. Naturalism Against Scepticism
3. P. F. Strawson - Freedom and Resentment
4. Gary Watson - Responsibility and the Limits of Evil: Variations
on a Strawsonian Theme
III. The Consequence Argument
5. Peter van Inwagen - The Incompatibility of Free Will and
Determinism
6. Dana Nelkin - The Consequence Argument and the Mind Argument
IV. Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities
7. Harry Frankfurt - Alternate Possibilities and Moral
Responsibility
8. Michael Otsuka - Incompatibilism and the Avoidability of
Blame
9. Kadri Vihvelin - Free Will Demystified: A Dispositional
Account
V. Libertarian Alternatives - Soft and Hard
10. Robert Kane - Responsibility, Luck and Chance: Reflections on
Free Will and Determinism
11. Randolph Clarke - Towards a Credible Agent-Causal Account of
Free Will
12. Timothy O'Connor - Agent-Causal Power
VI. Compatibilism: Hierarchical Theories and Manipulation
Problems
13. Harry Frankfurt - Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a
Person
14. Richard Double - Puppeteers, Hypnotists, and Neurosurgeons
VII. Compatibilism: Reason-Based Alternatives
15. Susan Wolf - Sanity and the Metaphysics of Responsibility
16. John M. Fischer - My Compatibilism
VIII. Autonomy and History
17. John Christman - Autonomy and Personal History
18. Michael McKenna - Responsibility & Globally Manipulated
Agents
IX. Scepticism, Illusionism and Revisionism
19. Galen Strawson - The Impossibility of Ultimate Moral
Responsibility
20. Saul Smilansky - Free Will: From Nature to Illusion
21. Manuel Vargas - How To Solve the Free Will Problem
X. Optimism, Pessimism and their Modes
22. Derk Pereboom - Optimistic Skepticism about Free Will
23. Paul Russell - Compatibilist-Fatalism: Finitude, Pessimism and
the Limits of Free Will
XI. The Phenomenology of Agency and Experimental Philosophy
24. Benjamin Libet - Do We have Free Will?
25. Eddy Nahmias, Stephen Morris, Thomas Nadelhoffer & Jason Turner
- The Phenomenology of Free Will
26. Shaun Nichols & Joshua Knobe - Moral Responsibility and
Determinism: The Cognitive Science of Folk Intuitions
Paul Russell is Professor in Philosophy at the University of
British Columbia. He has held research and teaching positions at
several universities, including Cambridge; Virginia; Stanford;
Pittsburgh; and North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His publications
include Freedom and Moral Sentiment (1995) and The Riddle of Hume's
Treatise (2008). In 2010 he was the Fowler Hamilton Visiting Fellow
at Christ Church, Oxford.
Oisín Deery is a PhD candidate at the University of British
Columbia.
"The essays collected in this volume have made incredible contributions to the free will debate. It is remarkable to have so many influential works collected in this way, and anyone interested in the free will debate would benefit greatly from having this collection close at hand."--William Simkulet, Metapsychology Online Reviews
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