Four Views on Free Will

Four Views on Free Will is the most up-to-date and well-balanced account of the four major positions in the free will debate. Renowned philosophers John Martin Fischer, Robert Kane, Derk Pereboom, and Manuel Vargas defend their different positions on the debate as they interact and engage with each other in dialogue and respond to recent critical literature in the field. Substantially revised throughout, this new volume contains eight in-depth chapters, almost entirely rewritten for the new edition, in which the authors state their different positions on the debate, offer insights into how their views have evolved over the past fifteen years, respond to recent critical literature in the field, and interact and engage with each other in dialogue. In the first four chapters the authors defend their distinctive views about free will: libertarianism, compatibilism, hard incompatibilism, and revisionism. The subsequent four chapters consist of direct replies by each of the authors to the other three. Part of the Great Debates in Philosophy series, Four Views on Free Will, Second Edition remains essential reading for undergraduate and graduate students, lecturers, and scholars in philosophy, ethics, free will, philosophy of mind, political philosophy, law, and related subjects.