Free Will : An Introduction.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Preface -- 1 Free Will: The Basics -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Determinism v. indeterminism -- 1.3 Determinism, indeterminism and causation -- 1.4 The Consequence Argument -- 1.5 Sourcehood and manipulation arguments -- 1.6 Conclusion -- 2 What Does Acting Freely Require? Some Compatibilist Views -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Compatibilist control and reasons-responsiveness -- 2.3 Dennett's 'personal stance' -- 2.4 Reactive attitudes -- 2.5 Frankfurt's hierarchical model -- 2.6 Conclusion -- 3 Compatibilism and the Consequence Argument -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 What does 'could have done otherwise' mean? -- 3.3 Dennett on the Principle of Alternate Possibilities -- 3.4 Local miracle compatibilism -- 3.5 Humean compatibilism -- 3.6 Conclusion -- 4 Compatibilism, Sourcehood, and Manipulation Arguments -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Sourcehood and manipulation -- 4.3 Pereboom's four-case argument -- 4.4 Some responses to the four-case argument -- 4.5 The zygote argument -- 4.6 Conclusion -- 5 What Does Acting Freely Require? Some Incompatibilist Views -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Indeterministic initiators -- 5.3 Leeway incompatibilism -- 5.4 Source incompatibilism -- 5.5 The problem of luck -- 5.6 Agent-causalism -- 5.7 Libertarianism -- 5.8 Pessimism -- 5.9 Conclusion -- 6 Frankfurt's Nefarious Neurosurgeon -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 The Frankfurt case -- 6.3 Frankfurt's analysis of the case -- 6.4 Incompatibilist responses to Frankfurt -- 6.5 The dilemma defence -- 6.6 The flicker defence -- 6.7 Weak source incompatibilism and weak agent-causalism -- 6.8 The W -defence -- 6.9 Could Jones really not have done otherwise? -- 6.10 Conclusion -- 7 Other Issues -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Free will and foreknowledge -- 7.3 Free will and neuroscience.

7.4 Free will, intuitions and experimental philosophy -- 7.5 What is moral responsibility anyway? -- 7.6 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

This comprehensive introductory guide includes discussion of the major contemporary positions on compatibilism and incompatibilism, and of the central arguments that are a focus of the current debate, including the Consequence Argument, manipulation arguments, and Frankfurt's famous argument against the 'Principle of Alternate Possibilities.

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