Free Will

Acknowledgments vii

1 Free Will 1

1.1 Why Care about Free Will? 2

1.2 Free Will and Fatalism 4

1.3 Time and Truth 7

1.4 Foreknowledge 13

1.5 Determinism 19

2 Moral Responsibility 27

2.1 Moral Responsibility 28

2.2 Freedom and Epistemic Conditions 29

2.3 Other Necessary Conditions 33

2.4 The "Free Will" Crisis 39

2.5 Moral Responsibility without Free Will 41

3 The Problem of Free Will 43

3.1 The First Argument 44

3.2 The Third Argument 48

3.3 The Mind Argument 51

3.4 Free Will Skepticism 54

4 Moral Responsibility: Incompatibilism and Skepticism 58

4.1 The Direct Argument 59

4.2 The Manipulation Argument 66

4.3 The Ultimacy Argument 69

5 Free Will Theories 73

5.1 Libertarianism 73

5.2 Free Will Skepticism 83

5.3 Compatibilism 86

5.4 Alternative Views 95

5.5 Final Thoughts 104

Notes 106

References 109

Index 122