Free Will A Contemporary Introduction

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  • Introduction Acknowledgments xiii

  • 1 Free Will, Moral Responsibility, and Determinism

    • 1.1. Free Will

    • 1.2. The Will in Free Will

    • 1.3. Moral Responsibility

    • 1.4. Determinism

    • 1.5. Metaphysical, Physical, and Nomic Impossibility

    • 1.6. Indeterminism, Mechanism, and Naturalism

    • Suggestions for Further Reading



  • 2 The Free Will Problem

    • 2.1. Compatibilism and Incompatibilism

      • Determinism 2.2. Motivating the Problem: The Appeal of Free Will and



    • 2.3. Free Will Problems

    • 2.4. Situating Compatibilism and Incompatibilism

    • Suggestions for Further Reading



  • 3 Classical Compatibilism and Classical Incompatibilism

    • 3.1. The Case for Classical Compatibilism

      • Otherwise” 3.2. The Dispute over the Analysis of “Could Have Done



    • 3.3. The Case for Classical Incompatibilism

    • 3.4. Classical Incompatibilism and Agent Causation

    • 3.5. Reflections on the Classical Debate

    • Suggestions for Further Reading



  • 4 The Debate over the Consequence Argument viii Contents

    • Do Otherwise 4.1. Reflecting on the Classical Controversy over the Ability to

    • 4.2. A Formulation of the Consequence Argument

    • 4.3. Strategies for Resisting the Consequence Argument

    • 4.4. The Consequence Argument: A More Precise Formulation

    • 4.5. Questioning Rule β and Seeking an Improved Version

    • 4.6. Assessments

    • Appendix I: What is a Modal Proposition?

      • Semantics for Ability Appendix II: Ginet’s Challenge to Compatibilist- Friendly



    • Suggestions for Further Reading



  • 5 Alternative Possibilities and Frankfurt Cases

    • 5.1. Compatibilist and Incompatibilist Source Views

    • 5.2. The Flicker of Freedom Defense

    • 5.3. The Dilemma Defense

    • 5.4. The Timing Defense

    • 5.5. General Abilities to Do Otherwise

    • 5.6. Final Words

    • Suggestions for Further Reading



  • 6 Strawsonian Compatibilism

    • 6.1. Strawson’s Audience: Optimists, Pessimists, and Skeptics

    • 6.2. Strawson’s Assumptions about Moral Psychology

    • 6.3. Strawson’s Theory of Moral Responsibility

    • 6.4. Strawson’s Arguments for Compatibilism

    • 6.5. Assessing Strawson’s Arguments for Compatibilism

    • 6.6. Reflecting on Strawsonian Compatibilism

    • Suggestions for Further Reading



  • 7 Three Source Incompatibilist Arguments

    • 7.1. The Emergence of Source Theories

    • 7.2. The Ultimacy Argument for Incompatibilism

    • 7.3. The Direct Argument for Incompatibilism

    • 7.4. The Manipulation Argument for Incompatibilism

      • Incompatibilism 7.5. Closing Remarks on Arguments for Source



    • Suggestions for Further Reading



  • 8 Contemporary Compatibilism: Seven Recent Views

    • Compatibilists 8.1. The Dispute between Historical and Nonhistorical

    • Blaming Practices 8.2. The Influences of Strawson on the Justification of our

    • 8.3. The Proliferation of Senses of Moral Responsibility Contents ix

    • 8.4. Dennett’s Multiple- Viewpoints Compatibilism

      • View 8.5. Wolf ’s Reason View and Nelkin’s Rational Abilities



    • 8.6. Mele’s Action- Theory Theory

    • 8.7. Scanlon’s Contractualist Compatibilism

    • 8.8. Wallace’s Fairness- Based Compatibilism

    • 8.9. Russell’s Strawsonian- Inspired Critical Compatibilism

    • 8.10. Bok’s Practical- Standpoint Compatibilism

      • Approaches 8.11. A Continuum Ranging from Normative to Metaphysical



    • Suggestions for Further Reading

      • Reasons- Responsive Theories, and Leeway Theories 9 Contemporary Compatibilism: Mesh Theories,



    • 9.1. Mesh Theories: An Initial Characterization

    • 9.2. Frankfurt’s Hierarchical Mesh Theory

    • 9.3. Three Challenges to Frankfurt’s Hierarchical Theory

    • 9.4. Watson’s Structural Mesh Theory

    • 9.5. Bratman’s Planning Theory

      • Characterization 9.6. Reasons- Responsive Theories: An Initial



    • 9.7. Fischer and Ravizza’s Reasons- Responsive Theory

    • 9.8. Three Challenges to Fischer and Ravizza’s Theory

      • Reasons- Responsive Source Theories 9.9. McKenna’s and Sartorio’s Agent- Based



    • 9.10. Contemporary Leeway Theories

    • 9.11. Vihvelin’s New Dispositionalism

    • Suggestions for Further Reading



  • 10 Contemporary Incompatibilism: Libertarianism

    • 10.1. Three Kinds of Libertarianism

    • 10.2. Two Event- Causal Libertarian Accounts

    • 10.3. Luck Objections to Event- Causal Libertarianism

    • 10.4. Applying the Objections

    • 10.5. Adding in Higher- Order States

    • 10.6. Agent- Causal Libertarianism

    • 10.7. Agent- Causal Libertarianism and Luck Objections

    • 10.8. Agent Causation and Rationality

      • Agent- Causal Power 10.9. Contrastive Explanations and an Expanding

      • Laws? 10.10. Is Agent- Causation Reconcilable with the Physical



    • 10.11. Is Libertarian Agent Causation Required for Agency?

    • 10.12. Non- Causal Theories

    • 10.13. The Cost of Rejecting Libertarianism x Contents

    • Suggestions for Further Reading



  • 11 Contemporary Incompatibilism: Skeptical Views

    • 11.1. Spinoza, the First Hard Determinist

    • 11.2. A Contemporary Hard Determinist

    • 11.3. No- Free-Will- Either-Way Theories

    • 11.4. A Neuroscientific Case against Free Will

    • 11.5. Derk Pereboom’s Argument for Free Will Skepticism

    • 11.6. Neil Levy’s Argument for Free Will Skepticism

    • 11.7. Tamler Sommers’ Metaskepticism

    • 11.8. Living without Free Will

    • 11.9. Final Words

    • Suggestions for Further Reading



  • 12 Revisionism and Some Remaining Issues

    • 12.1. Manuel Vargas’s Revisionism

    • 12.2. Responsibility for Omissions

    • 12.3. Deliberation and Free Will

    • 12.4. Experimental Philosophy and Free Will

    • 12.5. Religion and Free Will

    • 12.6. Conclusion

    • Suggestions for Further Reading

      • Bibliography

      • Index of authors cited





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