Free Will / Edition 2

by Gary Watson

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199254941
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/27/2003
Series:	Oxford Readings in Philosophy
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	472
Product dimensions:	7.90(w) x 5.30(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

University of California, Irvine

Table of Contents

Introduction, Gary Watson1. Human Freedom and the Self, Roderick M. Chisholm2. An Argument for Incompatibilism, Peter van Inwagen3. Free Will, Praise and Blame, J.J.C Smart4. Freedom and Resentment, Peter Strawson5. Towards a Reasonable Libertarianism, David Wiggins6. Are We Free to Break the Laws?, David Lewis7. Freedom and Practical Reason, Hilary Bok8. Alternative Possibilities and Moral Responsibility, Harry G. Frankfurt9. Libertarianism and Frankfurt's Attack on the Principle of Alternative Possibilities, David Widerker10. Frankfurt-Style Compatibilism, John Martin Fischer11. The Impossibility of Moral Responsibility, Galen Strawson12. Freedom, Thomas Nagel13. Agent Causation, Timothy O'Connor14. Toward a Credible Agent-Causal Account of Free Will, Randolph Clarke15. Responsibility, Luck, and Chance: Reflections on Free Will and Indeterminism, Robert Kane16. Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person, Harry G. Frankfurt17. Free Agency, Gary Watson18. The Significance of Choice, T.M. Scanlon19. Sanity and the Metaphysics of Responsibility, Susan Wolf20. Freedom in Belief and Desire, Philip Pettit and Michael Smith21. Freedom of Will and Freedom of Action, Rogers Albritton22. Addiction as Defect of the Will: Some Philosophical Reflections, R. Jay WallaceNotes on the contributorsSelected bibliographyIndex of names

Editorial Reviews

"Excellent anthology!"—James Coley, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

"An excellent collection."—Susan Sauve, Harvard University

"Excellent—exactly what I need for my free will course."—George B. Thomas, University of Virginia

"Outstanding and much needed."—Don Garrett, University of Utah

"An excellent collection of recent work on the ever-perplexing issues of mechanism and free will."—Lynne Rudder Baker, Middlebury College

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