The Oxford Handbook of Free Will (Oxford Handbooks in Philosophy)

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 The essays, most of which are previously unpublished, combine the work of established scholars with younger thinkers who are beginning to make significant contributions.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. Introduction : The contours of contemporary free will debates / Robert Kane Recent work on divine foreknowledge and free will / Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski Fatalism / Mark Bernstein Quantum physics, consciousness, and free will / David Hodgson Chaos, indeterminism, and free will / Robert C. Bishop A master argument for incompatibilism? / Tomis Kapitan Free will remains a mystery / Peter van Inwagen Ifs, cans, and free will : the issues / Bernard Berofsky Compatibilist views of freedom and responsibility / Ishtiyaque Haji Pessimists, Pollyannas, and the new compatibilism / Paul Russell Who's afraid of determinism? Rethinking causes and possibilities / Christopher Taylor and Daniel Dennett Frankfurt-type examples and semi-compatibilism / John Martin Fischer Libertarianism and Frankfurt-style cases / Laura Waddell Ekstrom Responsibility and Frankfurt-type examples / David Widerker Libertarian views : dualist and agent-causal theories / Timothy O'Connor Libertarian views : critical survey of noncausal and event-causal accounts of free agency / Randolph Clarke Reasons explanations of action : causalist versus noncausalist accounts / Carl Ginet Some neglected pathways in the free will labyrinth / Robert Kane The bounds of freedom / Galen Strawson Determinism as true, compatibilism and incompatibilism as false, and the real problem / Ted Honderich Living without free will : the case for hard incompatibilism / Derk Pereboom Free will, fundamental dualism, and the centrality of illusion / Saul Smilansky Metaethics, metaphilosophy, and free will subjectivism / Richard Double Autonomy, self-control, and weakness of will / Alfred R. Mele Do we have free will? / Benjamin Libet Neurophilosophy of free will / Henrik Walter. 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, all 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. "This reference provides a 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, all 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 a roadmap to the state of the art thinking on this topic."--BOOK JACKET THE problem of free will and necessity (or determinism) is "perhaps the most voluminously debated of all philosophical problems," according to a recent history of philosophy. This is a comprehensive reference work that provides an exhaustive guide to scholarship on the perennial problem of free will