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General (5 items)
Online reading lists: a guide for students
Website | To make the most of your online reading lists, take a look at the Library’s
guide for students.

‘Reading a Philosophy Paper’ - James Pryor

Webpage

Introduction: The Contours of Contemporary Free Will Debates

Chapter

Many journal articles are also available by searching the Library Discovery Service
Summon, including articles held on the JSTOR archive service.

If you have difficulty in understanding particular concepts one good starting point is to
consult the internet-based Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, which has many entries
relevant to this and other units in moral and political philosophy, and can be accessed at
the following link: http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html.

Set texts (2 items)

A contemporary introduction to free will - Robert Kane, 2005
Book | Essential | Available in print and online from the Library

The Oxford handbook of free will - Robert Kane, 2002

Book | Essential

Seminar Reading (8 items)

Bernstein Fatalism
Chapter

Berofsky Ifs, Cans, and Free Will: The Issues

Chapter

Kapitan A Master Argument for Incompatibilism?

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O'Connor Libertarian Views: Dualist and Agent-Causal Theories

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Strawson The Bounds of Freedom

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Ekstrom Libertarianism and Frankfurt-style Cases

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Widerker Responsibility and Frankfurt-type Examples

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Haji Compatibilist Views of Freedom and Responsibility

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Most Important Supplementary Texts (2 items)

Free will - Gary Watson, 2003
Book | Recommended

Four views on free will - John Martin Fischer, 2007

Book | Recommended

Useful Introductions (4 items)

Free Will - Timothy O'Connor
Article | Recommended

'Introduction' - Gary Watson, 2003

Chapter | Recommended

‘Introduction: The Contours of Contemporary Free Will Debates’ - Robert Kane, 2011
Chapter | Recommended | Available in print and online from the Library

Free Will Remains a Mystery: The Eighth Philosophical Perspectives Lecture - Peter van
Inwagen, 2000
Article | Recommended | (Also available in Robert Kane’s Oxford Handbook of Free Will.)

Classical compatibilism (6 items)

Compatibilism - Michael McKenna
Article

‘Freedom and Necessity’ - J. Ayer, 1982

Chapter

'Cans and Ifs: an Exchange’ - Bruce Aune, Keith Lehrer, 1982

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‘Free Will, Praise and Blame’ - J. J. C. Smart, 2003

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Elbow room: the varieties of free will worth wanting - Daniel C. Dennett, 1984
Book

‘Ifs, Cans, and Free Will: The Isssues’ - Bernard Berofsky, 2011
Chapter | Available in print and online from the Library

Incompatibilism (10 items)

Arguments for Incompatibilism - Kadri Vihvelin
Article

An essay on free will - Peter Van Inwagen, 1983

Book

Van Inwagen on Free Will - John Martin Fischer, 1986

Article

‘Are We Free to Break the Laws?’ - David Lewis, 2003

Chapter

‘A Master Argument for Incompatibilism?’ - Tomis Kapitan, 2011

Chapter | Available in print and online from the Library

Van Inwagen's consequence argument - Michael Huemer, 01/10/2000

Volume:
109




Issue:
4




Page:
525
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Reply to Huemer on the Consequence Argument - Helen Beebee, 2002

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‘Is incompatibilism intuitive?’, - Eddy Nahmias, 2008

Chapter | Available in print and online from the Library

‘Moral responsibility and Determinism: The Cognitive Science of Folk Intuitions’ - Shaun
Nichols, Joshua Knobe, 2008
Chapter

‘An Argument for Incompatibilism’ - Peter van Inwagen, 2003

Chapter

Libertarianism (8 items)
Incompatibilist (Nondeterministic) Theories of Free Will - Clarke, Randolph
Article

‘Towards a Reasonable Libertarianism’ - David Wiggins, 2003

Chapter

Free will: a philosophical study - Laura Waddell Ekstrom, 2000

Book

Free Will, Chance, and Mystery - L. Ekstrom, 2003

Article

The Mind argument and libertarianism - Alicia Finch, 01/07/1998

Volume:
107




Issue:
427




Page:
515
Article

An essay on free will - Peter Van Inwagen, 1983

Book | Chapter 6

‘Determinism as true, both compatibilism and incompatibilism as false, and the real
problem’ - Ted Honderich, 2011
Chapter | Available in print and online from the Library

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‘Moral luck’ - Thomas Nagel, 1982

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Agent Causation (5 items)

Incompatibilist (Nondeterministic) Theories of Free Will - Randolph Clarke
Article

‘Human Freedom and the Self’ - Roderick M. Chisholm, 2003

Chapter

‘Toward a Credible Agent-Causal Account of Free Will’ - Randolph Clarke, 2003

Chapter

Persons & causes: the metaphysics of free will - Timothy O'Connor, 2002
Book | Available in print and online from the Library

‘Responsibility, Luck, and Chance: Reflections on Free Will and Indeterminism’ - Robert
Kane, 2003
Chapter

Scepticism (7 items)
Freedom and belief - Galen Strawson, 1986
Book | Available in print and online from the Library

‘Libertarianism and Skepticism about Free Will: Some Arguments against Both’ - Manuel
Vargas
Document | Section IV

Free will and illusion - Saul Smilansky, 2000

Book

Living without free will - Derk Pereboom, 2001

Book | Available in print and online from the Library

‘Freedom’ - Thomas Nagel, 2003

Chapter

‘What Kind of Responsibility Must Criminal Law Presuppose?’ - R. A. Duff, 2011

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‘The Impossibility of Moral Responsibility’ - Galen Strawson, 2003

Chapter

Alternative Possibilities (9 items)

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‘Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility’ - Harry Frankfurt, 2003

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‘Libertarianism and Frankfurt’s Attack on the Principle of Alternative Possibilities’ - David

Widerker, 2003
Chapter

‘Frankfurt-Style Compatibilism’ - John Martin Fisher, 2003

Chapter

Rescuing Frankfurt-Style Cases - Alfred R. Mele and David Robb, 1998

Article

Frankfurt's Attack on the Principle of Alternative

Possibilities: A Further Look - David Widerker, 2000
Article

Moral responsibility and alternative possibilities: essays on the importance of alternative

possibilities - David Widerker, Michael McKenna, 2006
Book

Ability and Responsibility - Peter van Inwagen, 1978

Article

Alternative Possibilities and Causal

Histories - Derk Pereboom, 2000
Article

In Defense of the Principle of Alternative Possibilities: Why

I Don't Find Frankfurt's Argument Convincing - Carl Ginet, 1996
Article

New Compatibilism (8 items)

Responsibility and control: a theory of moral responsibility - John Martin Fischer, Mark
Ravizza, 2000
Book

My way: essays on moral responsibility - John Martin Fischer, 2008

Book | Available in print and online from the Library

‘Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person’ - Harry Frankfurt, 2003
Chapter

A Critique of Pereboom's 'Four-Case Argument' for Incompatibilism - Alfred R. Mele, 2005

Article

Living without free will - Derk Pereboom, 2001

Book | Available in print and online from the Library

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‘Free Agency’ - Gary Watson, 2003

Chapter

‘Sanity and the Metaphysics of Responsibility’ - Susan Wolf, 2003

Chapter

Smilansky's alleged refutation of compatibilism - Helen Beebee, 2008

Volume:
68




Issue:
299




Page:
258-260
Article

Reactive Attitudes (5 items)

‘Freedom and Resentment’ - Peter Strawson, 2003
Chapter

Moral Responsibility - Andrew Eshleman

Article

Responsibility and the moral sentiments - R. Jay Wallace, 1994

Book

Agency and answerability: selected essays - Gary Watson, 2004

Book | Chapters 8 - 10. Available in print and online from the Library

Self-knowledge and resentment - Akeel Bilgrami, 2012

Book

Responsibility (22 items)

‘A plea for Excuses’ - J. L. Austin, 1979
Chapter | Available in print and online from the Library

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Self-knowledge and resentment - Akeel Bilgrami, 2012

Book | Especially 55-68; 297-9

Rethinking responsibility - K. E. Boxer, 2013

Book

The morality of freedom - Joseph Raz, 1986

Book | Chapter 6. Available in print and online from the Library

‘Freedom and Resentment’ - Peter Strawson, 2003

Chapter

Shame and necessity - Bernard Arthur Owen Williams, 1993

Book

Punishment and responsibility: essays in the philosophy of law - H. L. A. Hart, John Gardner
, 2008
Book | Available in print and online from the Library

The possibility of altruism - Nagel, Thomas, 1970

Book

Normativity and the will: selected papers on moral psychology and practical reason - R. Jay
Wallace, 2006
Book | Chapters 6 - 7

Shaping the normative landscape - David Owens, c2012

Book

What we owe to each other - Thomas Scanlon, 1998

Book | Chapter 6

The possibility of practical reason - James David Velleman, 2000

Book | Chapter 2

The second-person standpoint: morality, respect, and accountability - Stephen L. Darwall,

c2006
Book | Chapter 4

‘Action and Responsibility’ - Joel Feinberg, 1968

Chapter

Smith and Hogan's criminal law - J.C. Smith, Brian Hogan, D.C. Ormerod, 2011
Book

On the Supposed Priority of Justification to Excuse - Douglas Husak, 2005

Article

Justification and excuse in the criminal law: a collection of essays - Michael Louis Corrado,
1994

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Book

The Gist of Excuses - John Gardner

Chapter

Criminal Law: Between Determinism, Liberalism, and Criminal Justice - J. Horder,

1996-01-01
Article

Criminal responsibility - Victor Tadros, 2005

Book | Available in print and online from the Library

Offences and defences: selected essays in the philosophy of criminal law - John Gardner,
2007
Book | Available in print and online from the Library

Excusing crime - Jeremy Horder, 2004

Book | Available in print and online from the Library

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