--James Coley, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
"An excellent collection."
--Susan Sauve, Harvard University
"Excellent--exactly what I need for my free will course."
--George B. Thomas, University of Virginia
"Outstanding and much needed."
--Don Garrett, University of Utah
"An excellent collection of recent work on the ever-perplexing issues of mechanism and free will."
--Lynne Rudder Baker, Middlebury College
Publisher Web Site, June, 2003
Summary
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. Organized dialectically, the volume covers the relation between
necessity, acting freely, and freedom to act otherwise, different accounts of the capacity for free agency and
the ways in which it can be compromised, grounds for scepticism about free agency, and discussions of the relation
between free will and responsibility. The new edition of this highly successful text will once again provide the
ideal introduction to free will.
