John Martin Fischer & Robert Kane 
Four Views on Free Will [PDF ebook] 

Focusing on the concepts and interactions of free will, moral responsibility, and determinism, this text represents the most up-to-date account of the four major positions in the free will debate.

* Four serious and well-known philosophers explore the opposing viewpoints of libertarianism, compatibilism, hard incompatibilism, and revisionism

* The first half of the book contains each philosopher’s explanation of his particular view; the second half allows them to directly respond to each other’s arguments, in a lively and engaging conversation

* Offers the reader a one of a kind, interactive discussion

* Forms part of the acclaimed Great Debates in Philosophy series

Table des matières

Notes on Contributors.

Acknowledgments.

A Brief Introduction to Some Terms and Concepts.

1. Libertarianism ((Robert Kane).

2. Compatibilism (John Martin Fischer).

3. Hard Incompatibilism (Derk Pereboom).

4. Revisionism (Manuel Vargas).

5. Response to Fischer, Pereboom, and Vargas (Robert Kane).

6. Response to Kane, Pereboom, and Vargas (John Martin
Fischer).

7. Response to Kane, Fischer, and Vargas (Derk Pereboom).

8. Response to Kane, Fischer, and Pereboom (Manuel Vargas).

Bibliography.

Index.

A propos de l’auteur

John Martin Fischer is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
at the University of California, Riverside, where he is a holder of
a UC President’s Chair. He is the author of The Metaphysics of
Free Will: An Essay on Control (Blackwell 1994);
Responsibility and Control: A Theory of Moral Responsibility
(with Mark Ravizza, 1998); and My Way: Essays on Moral
Responsibility (2006). He has written extensively on free will,
moral responsibility, the metaphysics of death, ethics, and the
philosophy of religion.

Robert Kane is University Distinguished Teaching
Professor at the The University of Texas at Austin. He is the
author of Free Will and Values (1985), Through the Moral
Maze (1994), The Significance of Free Will (1996), A
Contemporary Introduction to Free Will (2005) and editor of
The Oxford Handbook of Free Will (2002) and a collection of
readings, Free Will (Blackwell, 2002). He is a member of the
Academy of Distinguished Teachers at the University of Texas at
Austin.

Derk Pereboom is Professor of Philosophy at the
University of Vermont, where he has been since 1985. He will join
the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University in 2007. His
book, Living Without Free Will (Cambridge University Press)
appeared in 2001, and he has published articles on free will,
philosophy of mind, history of modern philosophy, and philosophy of
religion.

Manuel Vargas is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the
University of San Francisco. He has published articles on a range
of topics, including free will and moral responsibility, practical
reason, evil, and Latin American philosophy.