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Zusatztext The essays collected in this volume have made incredible contributions to the free will debate. It is remarkable to have so many influential works collected in this way, and anyone interested in the free will debate would benefit greatly from having this collection close at hand. Informationen zum Autor Paul Russell is Professor in Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. He has held research and teaching positions at several universities, including Cambridge; Virginia; Stanford; Pittsburgh; and North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His publications include Freedom and Moral Sentiment (1995) and The Riddle of Hume's Treatise (2008). In 2010 he was the Fowler Hamilton Visiting Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford. Oisín Deery is a PhD candidate at the University of British Columbia. Klappentext This collection provides a selection of the most essential contributions to the contemporary free will debate. Among the issues discussed and debated are skepticism and naturalism, alternate possibilities, the consequence argument, libertarian metaphysics, illusionism and revisionism, optimism and pessimism, neuroscience and free will, and experimental philosophy. Zusammenfassung This collection provides a selection of the most essential contributions to the contemporary free will debate. Among the issues discussed and debated are skepticism and naturalism, alternate possibilities, the consequence argument, libertarian metaphysics, illusionism and revisionism, optimism and pessimism, neuroscience and free will, and experimental philosophy. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 and 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 and Jason Turner - The Phenomenology of Free Will 26. Shaun Nichols and Joshua Knobe - Moral Responsibility and Determinism: The Cognitive Science of Folk Intuitions ...
