Free Will -

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Résumé :
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...

Biographie:
grounds for scepticism about free agency and discussions of the relation between free will and responsibility.
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Sommaire:

• Introduction


• 1: Roderick M. Chisholm: Human Freedom and the Self


• 2: Peter van Inwagen: An Argument for Incompatibilism


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


• 4: Peter Strawson: Freedom and Resentment


• 5: David Wiggins: Towards a Reasonable Libertarianism


• 6: David Lewis: Are We Free to Break the Laws?


• 7: Hilary Bok: Freedom and Practical Reason


• 8: Harry G. Frankfurt: Alternative Possibilities and Moral Responsibility


• 9: David Widerker: Libertarianism and Frankfurt's Attack on the Principle of Alternative Possibilities


• 10: John Martin Fischer: Frankfurt-Style Compatibilism


• 11: Galen Strawson: The Impossibility of Moral Responsibility


• 12: Thomas Nagel: Freedom


• 13: Timothy O'Connor: Agent Causation


• 14: Randolph Clarke: Toward a Credible Agent-Causal Account of Free Will


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


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


• 17: Gary Watson: Free Agency


• 18: T.M. Scanlon: The Significance of Choice


• 19: Susan Wolf: Sanity and the Metaphysics of Responsibility


• 20: Philip Pettit and Michael Smith: Freedom in Belief and Desire


• 21: Rogers Albritton: Freedom of Will and Freedom of Action


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


• Notes on the contributors


• Selected bibliography


• Index of names