Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Free Will and Responsibility

Thomas Nadelhoffer is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the College of Charleston, USA.Andrew Monroe is a Director of Research at Veris Insights in Washington D.C., USA.

What are the conditions under which a person’s will is free and they are responsible for what they do? As the essays in this volume demonstrate, this question cannot be answered exclusively from the armchair or exclusively with the empirical methods of science. Nadelhoffer and Munroe have assembled a set of exciting, transdisciplinary essays that seamlessly synthesize philosophical, theoretical, and empirical perspectives. Though experimental philosophy is a relatively young field, the sense that it has come of age and is delivering important new insights about human agency is evident throughout these pages.

• Introduction, Thomas Nadelhoffer (College of Charleston, USA) and Andrew Monroe (Appalachian State University, USA)1. Free Will Belief, Intention Attribution and Judging Responsibility, Oliver Genschow (University of Cologne, Germany) and Marcel Brass (Ghent University, Belgium)2. The Blame Efficiency Hypothesis: An Evolutionary Framework to Resolve Rationalist and Intuitionist Theories of Moral Condemnation, Cory Clark (University of Pennsylvania, USA)3. Mental States and Control-Based Theories of Moral Responsibility, Corey Cusimano (Princeton University, USA) and Geoffrey P Goodwin (University of Pennsylvania, USA)4. The Zygote Argument: An Empirical Investigation, Florian Cova (University of Geneva, Switzerland)5. Moral Responsibility Without (Some Kinds of) Freedom, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Duke University, USA)6. Folk Jurisprudence, Free Will, and Moral Responsibility, Thomas Nadelhoffer (College of Charleston, USA) and Andrew Monroe (Appalachian State University, USA)7. Moral Responsibility, Manipulation, and Experimental Philosophy, Alfred R. Mele (Florida State University, USA)8. Direct and Derivative Moral Responsibility: An Overlooked Distinction in Experimental Philosophy, Pascale Willemsen (University of Zurich, Switzerland)9. Victim Omissions: How Doing Nothing Affects Judgments of Cause and Blame, Laura Nemi (Cornell University, USA) and Paul Henne (Lake Forest College, USA)10. Free Will and Skilled Decision Theory, Adam Feltz, Gwen Hoang, Braden Tanner, Jenna Holt, and Asif Muhammad (University of Oklahoma, USA)Index