The Oxford handbook of free will
By: edited by Robert Kane
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Oxford handbooks; Oxford handbooks
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 646
ISBN-13: 9780195399691
Subjects: Modern Ethics; Free will and determinism; Modern Philosophy
Description: A guide to current work on free will and related subjects, the focus is on writings of the past 40 years, in which there has been a resurgence of interest in traditional issues about the freedom of the will in the light of new developments in the sciences, philosophy and humanistic studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [577]-620) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The contours of contemporary free will debates / Robert Kane; title: Divine knowledge and human freedom / William Hasker; title: Quantum physics, consciousness, and free will / David Hodgson; title: Chaos, indeterminism, and free will / Robert C. Bishop; title: The causal closure of physics and free will / Robert C. Bishop, Harald Atmanspacher; title: The consequence argument revisited / Daniel Speak; title: A compatibilist reply to the consequence argument / Tomis Kapitan; title: Compatibilism without Franfurt : dispositional analyses of free will / Bernard Berofsky; title: Contemporary compatibilism : mesh theories and reasons-responsive theories / Michael McKenna; title: Moral sense and the foundation of responsibility / Paul Russell; title: Who's still afraid of determinism? : rethinking causes and possibilities / Christopher Taylor, Daniel Dennett; title: Frankfurt-type examples and semi-compatibilism : new work / John Martin Fischer; title: Frankfurt-friendly Libertarianism / David Wideker; title: Obligation, reason, and Frankfurt examples / Ishtiyaque Haji; title: Agent-causal theories of freedom / Timothy O'Connor; title: Alternatives for Libertarians / Randolph Clarke; title: Freedom and action without causation : noncausal theories of freedom and purposive agency / Thomas Pink; title: Free will is not a mystery / Laura W. Ekstrom; title: Rethinking free will labyrinth / Robert Kane; title: Free-will skepticism and meaning in life / Derk Pereboom; title: Free will, fundamental dualism, and the centrality of illusion / Saul Smilansky; title: Effects, determinism, neither compatibilism nor incompatibilism, consciousness / Ted Honderich; title: Revisionist accounts of free will : origins, varieties, and challenges / Manuel Vargas; title: A promising argument / Peter van Inwagen; title: Rollbacks, endorsements, and indeterminism / Michael Almeida, Mark Bernstein; title: Free will and science / Alfred R. Mele; title: Contributions of neuroscience to the free will debate / Henrik Walter; title: Free will and the bounds of the self / Joshua Knaube, Shaun Nichols; title: Intuitions about free will, determinism, and bypassing / Eddy Nahmias.