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  • Free Will, Determinism, and Moral Responsibility - The Whole Thing in Brief
    Ted Honderich's (still quite long) summary of a deterministic philosophy of mind, and its consequences for our fundamental attitudes.
  • Who's Afraid of Determinism? Rethinking Causes and Possibilities
    A chapter from the 'The Free Will Handbook' (edited by Robert Kane, 2002) by Christopher Taylor and Daniel Dennett.
  • Lecture Notes on Free Will and Determinism - Prof. Norman Swartz
    Discusses the various problems raised by different concepts of determinism, and presents an argument that physical determinism is compatible with free will.
  • Determinism as True, Compatibilism and Incompatibilism as Both False, and the Real Problem
    A critique of the view that quantum theory disproves determinism, and an argument that freedom is simultaneously compatible and incompatible with determinism. By Prof. Ted Honderich.
  • The Determinism and Freedom Philosophy Website
    A comprehensive collection of important papers on the philosophy of free will, freedom and determinism. By Prof. Ted Honderich.
  • Online Papers on Consciousness: Free Will
    Section on free will from David Chalmers' site.
  • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Incompatibilist (Nondeterministic) Theories of Free Will
    Randolph Clarke's survey of theories of freedom according to which it is inconsistent with causal determinism.
  • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Free Will
    An overview of theories of free will and the problems that they raise. By Timothy O'Connor.
  • Naturalism.Org - Free Will
    A series of essays offering a naturalistic critique of libertarian free will, arguing that such freedom is illusory, and also unnecessary to ground our moral practices.
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  • Free will - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    URL : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will
    ... the existence of free will and the truth of determinism are compatible with each ... Fischer, R.M. (1994) The Metaphysics of Free Will, Oxford:Blackwell ...[2008/11/24]
  • Determinism, Free Will, Freedom
    URL : www.mb-soft.com/believe/text/determin.htm
    Several articles on Determinism and Free Will subjects. ... Bondage of the Will; R Taylor, Metaphysics; A Farrer, The Freedom of the Will. Determinism ...[2008/09/06]
  • Free Will [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
    URL : www.iep.utm.edu/f/freewill.htm
    3. Free Will and Determinism. a. The Thesis of Causal Determinism ... Persons and Causes: The Metaphysics of Free Will (Oxford University Press) ...[2006/06/10]
  • Libertarianism (metaphysics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    URL : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism_(metaphysics)
    ... philosophical position in metaphysics with respect to free will and determinism. ... Categories: Free will | Determinism | Metaphysics ...[2008/11/26]
  • Free will : Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online
    URL : www.rep.routledge.com/article/V014
    5 Metaphysics and moral psychology. 6 Challenges to pessimism. GALEN STRAWSON. Free will ' ... who hold that free will is compatible with determinism. ...[2008/11/23]
  • Incompatiblism and Compatiblism
    URL : www.class.uidaho.edu/ngier/free&determ.htm
    Hard determinism and radical free‐will theory are sometimes called " ... metaphysics which support it can be subjected to the criticisms formulated in the article. ...[2003/01/13]
  • Free Will & Determinism
    URL : linas.org/theory/freewill.html
    ... that abstracting away from determinism to free will and consciousness is harder ... above and below, my explicit goal is to tie the metaphysics of free will to ...[2000/08/10]
  • Philosophy: Free Will vs. Determinism: WSM Explains Limited Free Will ...
    URL : www.spaceandmotion.com/Philosophy-Free-Will-Determinism.htm
    Philosophy: Free Will vs. Determinism: The Wave Structure of Matter (WSM) ... Science (Occam's Razor / Simplicity) and Metaphysics (Dynamic Unity of Reality) ...[2008/05/07]
  • free will: Definition from Answers.com
    URL : www.answers.com/topic/free-will
    Determinism and Free Will." In The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy. ... Fischer, R.M. (1994) The Metaphysics of Free Will, Oxford:Blackwell ...[2008/11/18]
  • Free Will/Determinism Paradox
    URL : www.futureperspective.com/free.htm
    A discussion of free will and determinism ... The Free Will/Determinism Paradox. By Edwin E. Ott ... How can we have free will and the remainder of the ...[2003/12/05]
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