Companion to Free Will

JOSEPH CAMPBELL is Professor of Philosophy in the School of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs at Washington State University. He is co-founder of the Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference and has helped organize scores of philosophy conferences and public events. Professor Campbell has edited nine books as well as numerous papers for the Journal of Ethics, The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and Philosophical Studies. He is the recipient of the Marian E. Smith Faculty Achievement Award and the Honors Thesis Advisor Award. KRISTIN M. MICKELSON earned her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado at Boulder and spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) in the Lund-Gothenburg Responsibility Project. She is now an independent researcher who works on the metaphysics of free will (broadly construed), the logic of explanation, and moral luck. Her published work appears in venues such as Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Philosophia, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, and Social Philosophy & Policy. V. ALAN WHITE is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He is the author of numerous articles appearing in Analysis, Erkenntnis, Philosophy, The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Process Studies, and Teaching Philosophy. Professor White has written and performed dozens of philosophical parodies on his popular website Philosophy Songs for many years. He is the recipient of a Carnegie/CASE teaching award as Wisconsin Professor of the Year and the 2009 University of Wisconsin Colleges Chancellor’s Award for Excellence.

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• List of Contributors xAcknowledgments xvi1 Introduction, Wiley Companion to Free Will 1Kristin M. Mickelson, Joseph Campbell, and V. Alan WhitePart I Preliminaries 212 Logical and Theological Fatalism 23Alicia Finch3 Causal Determinism 39V. Alan White4 (In)compatibilism 58Kristin M. Mickelson5 Agent Causation 84Leigh C. Vicens6 Obligation and Moral Responsibility 95Ishtiyaque Haji7 Perfect Freedom 108Marilyn Mccord AdamsPart II Compatibility Problems 1238 The Consequence Argument and the Mind Argument 125Joseph Campbell and Kenji Lota9 Manipulation and Direct Arguments 144Justin A. Capes10 Freedom and Time Travel 157Ryan Wasserman11 Divine Freedom 169Brian Leftow12 Denialism 184Saul Smilansky13 Revisionism 204Manuel R. VargasPart III The Science of Free Will 22114 How the Laws Constrain: Causation, Counterfactuals, and Free Will 223Kadri Vihvelin15 Free Will and Implicit Attitudes 241Neil Levy and Jessica Wright16 The Role of Consciousness in Free Action 256Philip Woodward17 neuroscience 278R.R. Waller18 A Defense of natural Compatibilism 294Florian Cova19 Libertarianism 314Mark BalaguerPart IV Moral Responsibility 33520 Children and Moral Responsibility 337Meghan Griffith21 The epistemic Condition of Moral Responsibility 355Philip Robichaud22 Forgiveness and the emotions 369Laura W. Ekstrom23 Free Will and Moral Luck 378Robert J. Hartman24 Basic Desert and the Appropriateness of Blame 393Kelly Mccormick25 Criminal Responsibility 406Ken LevyPart V The Future 41526 The experience of Free Agency 417Oisín Deery and Eddy Nahmias27 The Future of the Causal Quest 434Hannah Tierney28 Free Will and Reference 451Shaun Nichols29 Meaning in Life and Free Will skepticism 464Derk Pereboom30 Free Will: Looking Ahead 477Alfred R. Mele31 epilogue: Free Will Zombies 491V. Alan WhiteIndex 496