1st Edition

The Routledge Companion to Free Will

Edited By Kevin Timpe, Meghan Griffith, Neil Levy Copyright 2017
    732 Pages
    by Routledge

    730 Pages
    by Routledge

    Questions concerning free will are intertwined with issues in almost every area of philosophy, from metaphysics to philosophy of mind to moral philosophy, and are also informed by work in different areas of science (principally physics, neuroscience and social psychology). Free will is also a perennial concern of serious thinkers in theology and in non-western traditions. Because free will can be approached from so many different perspectives and has implications for so many debates, a comprehensive survey needs to encompass an enormous range of approaches. This book is the first to draw together leading experts on every aspect of free will, from those who are central to the current philosophical debates, to non-western perspectives, to scientific contributions and to those who know the rich history of the subject.



    Chapter 37 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138795815_oachapter37.pdf

    List of Contributors



    Introduction



    Section I: Major Positions in the Free Will Debate introduction



    1 Semicompatibilism



    John Martin Fischer



    2 Identificationist Views



    Agnieszka Jaworska



    3 Reasons-Responsive Theories of Freedom



    Michael McKenna



    4 Classical Compatibilism



    Bernard Berofsky



    5 Dispositional Compatibilism



    Kadri Vihvelin



    6 Event-Causal Libertarianism



    Laura W. Ekstrom



    7 Agent Causation



    Meghan Griffith



    8 Non-Causal Libertarianism



    Hugh J. McCann



    9 Strawsonian Views



    Paul Russell



    10 Revisionism



    Kelly McCormick



    11 Skepticism about Free Will



    Derk Pereboom



    12 Nonstandard Views



    Saul Smilansky



    Section II: Major Arguments introduction



    13 The Consequence Argument



    Joe Campbell



    15 The Manipulation Argument



    Kristin Mickelson



    16 Frankfurt-style Examples



    Carolina Sartorio



    17 Logical Fatalism



    Alicia Finch



    18 The Luck and Mind Arguments



    Christopher Evan Franklin



    19 Leeway vs. Sourcehood Conceptions of Free Will



    Kevin Timpe



    Section III: Historical Figures introduction



    20 Aristotle



    Karen Margrethe Nielsen



    21 The Stoics on Fate and Freedom



    Tim O’Keefe



    22 Augustine of Hippo



    Jesse Couenhoven



    23 Anselm of Canterbury



    Sandra Visser



    24 Thomas Aquinas



    Harm Goris



    25 John Duns Scotus



    Thomas Williams



    26 Rene Descartes



    C.P. Ragland



    27 Got

    Biography

    Kevin Timpe holds the W. H. Jellema Chair in Christian Philosophy at Calvin College. He has published a number of books on free will, including Free Will: Sourcehood and Its Alternatives, Second Edition (2013, Free Will in Philosophical Theology (2013), and Free Will and Theism: Connections, Contingencies, and Concerns (2016).



     



    Meghan Griffith is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Davidson College. She is the author of Free Will: The Basics (Routledge, 2013) and a number of articles centering on human agency.



     



    Neil Levy is professor of philosophy at Macquarie University, Sydney, and a senior researcher at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford. He is the author of 7 books, including, most recently, Consciousness and Moral Responsibility (2014). He has published very widely on free will, moral responsibility, philosophy of mind, applied ethics and other topics.



     



     



     

    "The philosophical literature on free will can seem as endless and difficult to navigate as Borges’ mythical 'Library of Babel.' This book is the map to that infinite-seeming collection of rooms. The editors have done an extraordinary job of assembling an excellent team of authors to cover every significant aspect of the vibrant contemporary literature on free will. This book should be at the fingertips of every student and scholar who works on free will."

    Manuel Vargas, University of San Francisco, USA

    "An exceptionally comprehensive guide to debates about free will and moral responsibility, with separate chapters covering different major positions, major arguments, historical figures, recent scientific work in the neurosciences, psychology and other fields, as well as implications for theology, criminal law, mind, self-control, addiction, will-power and many other topics. An invaluable resource for students and scholars alike on all these important topics."

    Robert Kane, University of Texas, USA