The Oxford Handbook of Free Will

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Robert Kane
Oxford University Press, 2005 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 638 pages
This comprehensive reference provides an exhaustive guide to current scholarship on the perennial problem of Free Will--perhaps the most hotly and voluminously debated of all philosophical problems. While reference is made throughout to the contributions of major thinkers of the past, the emphasis is on recent research. The essays, most of which are previously unpublished, combine the work of established scholars with younger thinkers who are beginning to make significant contributions. Taken as a whole, the Handbook provides an engaging and accessible roadmap to the state of the art thinking on this enduring topic.

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Contents

The Contours of Contemporary Free Will Debates
3
PART I THEOLOGY AND FATALISM
43
PART II PHYSICS DETERMINISM AND INDETERMINISM
83
PART III THE MODAL OR CONSEQUENCE ARGUMENT FOR INCOMPATIBILISM
125
PART IV COMPATIBILIST PERSPECTIVES ON FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY
179
PART V MORAL RESPONSIBILITY ALTERNATIVE POSSIBILITIES AND FRANKFURTSTYLE EXAMPLES
279
PART VI LIBERTARIAN PERSPECTIVES ON FREE AGENCY AND FREE WILL
335
SUCCESSOR VIEWS TO HARD DETERMINISM AND OTHERS
439
PART VIII NEUROSCIENCE AND FREE WILL
549
References
577
Index
618
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Robert Kane is at University of Texas, Austin.