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Book SynopsisProvides a comprehensive, cutting-edge, and accessible accompaniment to various narratives about free will A Companion to Free Will is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the philosophy of free will, offering an authoritative survey of perennial issues and contemporary debates within the field. Bringing together the work of a diverse team of established and younger scholars, this well-balanced volume offers innovative perspectives and fresh approaches to the classical compatibility problem, moral and legal responsibility, consciousness in free action, action theory, determinism, logical fatalism, impossibilism, and much more. The Companion's 30 chapters provide general coverage of the discipline as well as an in-depth exploration of both CAP (Classical Analytic Paradigm) and non-CAP perspectives on the problem of free will and the problem of determinismraising new questions about what the free will debate is, or should be, about. Throughout the book, coverage of modern e
Table of ContentsList of Contributors x
Acknowledgments xvi
1 Introduction, Wiley Companion to Free Will 1
Kristin M. Mickelson, Joseph Campbell, and V. Alan White
Part I Preliminaries 21
2 Logical and Theological Fatalism 23
Alicia Finch
3 Causal Determinism 39
V. Alan White
4 (In)compatibilism 58
Kristin M. Mickelson
5 Agent Causation 84
Leigh C. Vicens
6 Obligation and Moral Responsibility 95
Ishtiyaque Haji
7 Perfect Freedom 108
Marilyn Mccord Adams
Part II Compatibility Problems 123
8 The Consequence Argument and the Mind Argument 125
Joseph Campbell and Kenji Lota
9 Manipulation and Direct Arguments 144
Justin A. Capes
10 Freedom and Time Travel 157
Ryan Wasserman
11 Divine Freedom 169
Brian Leftow
12 Denialism 184
Saul Smilansky
13 Revisionism 204
Manuel R. Vargas
Part III The Science of Free Will 221
14 How the Laws Constrain: Causation, Counterfactuals, and Free Will 223
Kadri Vihvelin
15 Free Will and Implicit Attitudes 241
Neil Levy and Jessica Wright
16 The Role of Consciousness in Free Action 256
Philip Woodward
17 neuroscience 278
R.R. Waller
18 A Defense of natural Compatibilism 294
Florian Cova
19 Libertarianism 314
Mark Balaguer
Part IV Moral Responsibility 335
20 Children and Moral Responsibility 337
Meghan Griffith
21 The epistemic Condition of Moral Responsibility 355
Philip Robichaud
22 Forgiveness and the emotions 369
Laura W. Ekstrom
23 Free Will and Moral Luck 378
Robert J. Hartman
24 Basic Desert and the Appropriateness of Blame 393
Kelly Mccormick
25 Criminal Responsibility 406
Ken Levy
Part V The Future 415
26 The experience of Free Agency 417
Oisín Deery and Eddy Nahmias
27 The Future of the Causal Quest 434
Hannah Tierney
28 Free Will and Reference 451
Shaun Nichols
29 Meaning in Life and Free Will skepticism 464
Derk Pereboom
30 Free Will: Looking Ahead 477
Alfred R. Mele
31 epilogue: Free Will Zombies 491
V. Alan White
Index 496
