Table of Contents

1. Can We Ever Be Really, Truly, Ultimately, Free?
Mark Bernstein 1

2. On an Argument for the Impossibility of Moral Responsibility
Randolph Clark 13

3. Deliberation and Metaphysical Freedom
E. J. Coffman and Ted A. Warfield 25

4. Alienation, Autonomy, and the Self
Laura Waddell Ekstrom 45

5. Neurobiology, Neuroimaging, and Free Will
Walter Glannon 68

6. Frankfurt-Style Counterexamples and Begging the Question
Steward Goetz 83

7. Freedom, Obligation, and Responsibility: Prospects for a Unifying Theory
Ishtiyaque Haji 106

8. Moral Responsibility and Buffered Alternatives
David P. Hunt 126

9. Decisions, Intentions, and Free Will
Alfred R. Mele 146

10. Where Frankfurt and Strawson Meet
Michael McKenna 163

11. Freedom, Responsibility and the Challenge of Situationism
Dana K. Nelkin 181

12. Freedom with a Human Face
Timothy O'Connor 207

13. Defending Hard Incompatibilism
Derk Pereboom 228

14. Free Will and Respect for Persons
Saul Smilansky 248

15. PAPistry: Another Defense
Daniel Speak 262

16. The Trouble with Tracing
Manuel Vargas 269

17. Blameworthiness, Non-robust Alternatives, and the Principle of Alternative Expectations
David Widerker 292

18. More on "Ought" Implies "Can" and the Principle of Alternate Possibilities 307
Gideon Yaffe 307 

About the Author

Peter A. French is the Lincoln Chair in Ethics, Professor of Philosophy, and the Director of the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics at Arizona State University. His Ph.D. is from the University of Miami and he did post-doctoral work at Oxford University. He was awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters (L.H.D.) honorary degree from Gettysburg College in 2006. French is the author of twenty books including War and Moral Dissonance; The Virtues of Vengeance; Cowboy Metaphysics; Ethics and College Sports; Responsibility Matters; Corporate Ethics; and Collective and Corporate Responsibility. He has published dozens of articles in the philosophical and legal journals. Works by him have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, German, Italian, French, Serbian, and Spanish.

Howard K. Wettstein is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. He holds an M.A. and Ph.D. from the City University of New York and a B.A. from Yeshiva College. He has authored three books, The Significance of Religious Experience, and Other Essays (forthcoming), The Magic Prism: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language, and Has Semantics Rested on a Mistake? And Other Essays, and edited others including Themes from Kaplan (co-edited) and Diasporas and Exiles: Varieties of Jewish Identity. He is currently writing a new book on the philosophy of religion; his work in that area includes such topics as doctrine and the viability of philosophical theology; the Book of Job and the problem of evil; the Akedah (the Binding of Isaac); the character of religious experience and religious life; and the roles of awe, ritual, and intimacy. His has published articles on these topics and well as in the philosophy of language.

John Martin Fischer earned his B.A. and M.A. in philosophy from Stanford University in 1975, and his Ph.D. in philosophy from Cornell University in 1982. He has written on such topics as free will, causal determinism, theological determinism, moral responsibility, abortion, death, immortality, and the meaning of life. He is the author of The Metaphysics of Free Will: An Essay of Control (Blackwell, 1994); and (with Mark Ravizza, S.J.) Responsibility and Control: A Theory of Moral Responsibility (1998). A selection of his papers will be published in My Way: Essays on Moral Responsibility (forthcoming 2005).