Free Will

Marco Hausmann is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Munich, Germany. He is the author of the papers ‘The Consequence Argument Ungrounded’ (Synthese, 2018), ‘Against Kripke’s Solution to the Problem of Negative Existentials’ (Analysis, 2019) and ‘The Consequence of the Consequence Argument' (Kriterion, forthcoming). His research interests include metaphysics, logic, and the philosophy of language, freedom and religion.Jörg Noller is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Munich, Germany. He is the author and editor of a number of books and articles on freedom from a historical and systematic perspective, including ‘Die Bestimmung des Willens’ (Alber, 2020), ‘Kant and Reinhold’s Dilemma' (European Journal of Philosophy, 2019), and ‘Schiller on Freedom of the Will’ (European Journal of Philosophy, 2020). His research interests include metaphysics, freedom, personhood, and German Idealism.

• Part I: Free Will and Determinism.- 1. What is Determinism?; Helen Steward.- 2. Aristotle and the Discovery of Determinism; Dorothea Frede.- 3. Defending Free Will; Nicholas Rescher.- 4. Some Free Thinking about 'Thinking about Free Will'; Marco Hausmann.- 5. Local-Miracle Compatibilism: A Critique; John Martin Fischer.- 6. Backtracking Counterfactuals and Agents' Abilities; Helen Beebee.- 7. Moral Necessity, Agent Causation, and the Determination of Free Actions in Clarke and Leibniz; Julia Jorati.- Part II: Free Will and Indeterminism.- 8. Indeterministic Compatibilism; Caroline Sartorio.- 9. The Culpability Problem and the Indeterminacy of Choice; Thomas Buchheim.- 10. Ambivalent Freedom: Kant and the Problem of Willkür; Jörg Noller.- 11. Determination, Chance and David Hume: On Freedom as a Power; Thomas Pink.- Part III: Free Will and Moral Responsibility.- 12. Kant's Justification for Freedom as a Conclusion for Moral Responsibility; Claudia Blöser.- 13. Does 'Ought' imply 'Can'?; Peter van Inwagen.