Derk Pereboom articulates and defends an original conception of moral responsibility. He
argues that if determinism were true we would not be morally responsible in the key basic …

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As an advanced introduction to the challenging topic of free will, this book is designed for
upper-level undergraduates interested in a comprehensive first-stop into the field's issues …

Skepticism about moral responsibility, or what is more commonly referred to as moral
responsibility skepticism, refers to a family of views that all take seriously the possibility that …

This paper provides an overview of recent discussions of the phenomenology of agency. By
'the phenomenology of agency'I mean those phenomenal states that are associated with first …

We believe that we have free will and this belief is so firmly entrenched in our daily lives that
it is almost impossible to take seriously the thought that it might be mistaken. We deliberate …

" Free Will" is largely a philosophical term of art for a particular sort of capacity of rational
agents to choose a course of action from among various alternatives. Which sort is the free …

This article critically examines the experimental philosophy of free will, particularly the
interplay between ordinary individuals' compatibilist and incompatibilist intuitions. It explores …

The problem of free will arises from ordinary, commonsense reflection. Shaun Nichols
examines these ordinary attitudes from a naturalistic perspective. He offers a psychological …

The claim that common sense regards free will and moral responsibility as compatible with
determinism has played a central role in both analytic and experimental philosophy. In this …