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The Philosophy of Free Will:: Essential Readings from the Contemporary Debates

Paul Russell, Oisín Deery

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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 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

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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 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

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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 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

Key concepts: Compatibilism, Free will, Incompatibilism, Determinism, Skepticism, Philosophy, Moral responsibility, Epistemology

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