Introduction: The Contours of Contemporary Free Will Debates

This article describes the contours of contemporary free will debates and provides an overview of the topics in this volume. It considers the following issues: free will and conflicting views about persons; the determinist question and modern science; the compatibility question and arguments for incompatibilism; classical compatibilism; moral responsibility and alternative possibilities; new compatibilist approaches to freedom and responsibility; libertarian or incompatibilist theories of free will; hard determinism, successor views, and other nonstandard theories; neuroscience and free will; and theological determinism and fatalism.