Free will

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New York: Oxford University Press (1982)
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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

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BJ1461.F75 2003

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019925494X   9780199254941   0198750544

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original Watson, Gary (1982) "Free Will, 1st ed.". Oxford University Press
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A Causal Consciousness, Free Will, and Dualism.Ian Wardell
Addiction as Defect of the Will: Some Philosophical Reflections.R. Jay Wallace
Agent Causation.Timothy O'Connor
Alternative Possibilities and Moral Responsibility.Harry G. Frankfurt
An Argument for Incompatibilism.Peter van Inwagen
Are We Free to Break the Laws?David Lewis
Frankfurt-Style Compatibilism.John Martin Fischer
Free Agency.Gary Watson
Free Will, Praise and Blame.J. J. C. Smart
Freedom.Thomas Nagel
Freedom and Practical Reason.Hilary Bok
Freedom and Resentment.Peter Strawson
Freedom in Belief and Desire.Philip Pettit & Michael Smith
Freedom of Will and Freedom of Action.Rogers Albritton
Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person.Harry Frankfurt
Human Freedom and the Self.Roderick Chisholm
Libertarianism and Frankfurt's Attack on the Principle of Alternative Possibilities.David Widerker
Responsibility, Luck, and Chance: Reflections on Free Will and Indeterminism.Robert Kane
Sanity and the Metaphysics of Responsibility.Susan Wolf
The Impossibility of Moral Responsibility.Galen J. Strawson
The Significance of Choice.T. M. Scanlon
Towards a Reasonable Libertarianism.David Wiggins
Toward a credible agent–causal account of free will.  (pages 191-203)Randolph Clarke
Freedom of Will and Freedom of Action.  (pages 239-251)Rogers Albritton

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