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Free Will

Second Edition

Edited by Gary Watson

Price: £17.99 (paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-925494-1
Publication date: 30 January 2003
472 pages, 216x138 mm

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Description

The most comprehensive and up-to-date collection devoted solely to free will
Covers considerably more ground than the first edition, including 11 additional key pieces on free will
Completely new introduction to the second edition, which acts as an introduction to the topic of free will and contemporary debates surrounding this, as well as introducing and setting in context each of the articles included in the collection
The editor, Gary Watson, is an authority in the field

The new edition of this highly successful text will once again provide the ideal introduction to free will. This volume brings together some of the most influential contributions to the topic of free will during the past 50 years, as well as some notable recent work.

Topics explored in this collection include: the relation between necessity, acting freely, and freedom to act otherwise; different accounts of the capacity for free agency, and the ways in which it can be compromised; grounds for scepticism about free agency and discussions of the relation between free will and responsibility.

Contents

Introduction , Gary Watson

1. Human Freedom and the Self , Roderick M. Chisholm

2. An Argument for Incompatibilism , Peter van Inwagen

3. Free Will, Praise and Blame , J.J.C Smart

4. Freedom and Resentment , Peter Strawson

5. Towards a Reasonable Libertarianism , David Wiggins

6. Are We Free to Break the Laws? , David Lewis

7. Freedom and Practical Reason , Hilary Bok

8. Alternative Possibilities and Moral Responsibility , Harry G. Frankfurt

9. Libertarianism and Frankfurt's Attack on the Principle of Alternative Possibilities , David Widerker

10. Frankfurt-Style Compatibilism , John Martin Fischer

11. The Impossibility of Moral Responsibility , Galen Strawson

12. Freedom , Thomas Nagel

13. Agent Causation , Timothy O'Connor

14. Toward a Credible Agent-Causal Account of Free Will , Randolph Clarke

15. Responsibility, Luck, and Chance: Reflections on Free Will and Indeterminism , Robert Kane

16. Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person , Harry G. Frankfurt

17. Free Agency , Gary Watson

18. The Significance of Choice , T.M. Scanlon

19. Sanity and the Metaphysics of Responsibility , Susan Wolf

20. Freedom in Belief and Desire , Philip Pettit and Michael Smith

21. Freedom of Will and Freedom of Action , Rogers Albritton

22. Addiction as Defect of the Will: Some Philosophical Reflections , R. Jay Wallace

Notes on the contributors

Selected bibliography

Index of names

Authors, editors, and contributors

Edited by Gary Watson, Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Riverside

Links to web resources and related information

More in the same subject area:
Philosophy
Ethics & moral philosophy

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