Free Will and Determinism

Robert L. Frazier

25/11/2017

Reading

General

• Ted Honderich. A Theory of Determinism. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1988.

• John L. Mackie. The Cement of the Universe. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1974. Pp. 38–43.

• Richard Sorabji. Necessity, Cause, and Blame. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 1980.Pp. 26–40.

• Robert Young. The implications of determinism. In Peter Singer, editor, A Companion to Ethics,pages 534–542. Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1991.

Compatibilism — 1

• John Locke. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Fontana Library, London, fifth edition,1690/1964. ISBN 0 00 641040 5. Bk. II, Ch. 21.

• David Hume. Enquires Concerning the Human Understanding and Concerning the Principles ofMorals. Clarendon Press, Oxford, second edition, 1748/1966. §8.

• A. J. Ayer. Freedom and necessity. Polemic, page ??, 1946.

• Daniel C. Dennett. Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology. MIT Press,Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1978. Pp. 286–99.

• Peter Van Inwagen. The incompatibility of free will and determinism. Philosophical Studies, 27:185–99, 1975.

Compatibilism — 2

• Immanuel Kant. Critique of Pure Reason. St Martin’s Press, New York, 1781/1965. A444-5/B472-3,A532/B560–A558/B586.

• Immanuel Kant. Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals. 1785/1953. Ch. 3.

• Peter Strawson. Freedom and resentment. Proceedings of the British Academy, 48:1–25, 1962.

• Jonathan F. Bennett. Kant’s Dialectic. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1974. Ch. 10.

• Lewis W. Beck. A Commentary on Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason. University of ChicagoPress, Chicago, 1960. Ch. 11.

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Libertarianism

• Thomas Reid. Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man. MacMillian, London, 1785/1941. Essay4, chs 1,2,4,6,7, & 8.

• Keith Lehrer. Thomas Reid. Routledge, London, 1989. Ch. XIV.

• C. A. Campbell. On Selfhood and Godhood. Allen and Unwin, London, 1957. Lecture IX.

• Roderick M. Chisholm. Human freedom and the self. In Gary Watson, editor. Free Will. OxfordUniversity Press, Oxford, first edition, 1982, pages 24–35.

Mechanism

• Norman Malcolm. The conceivability of mechanism. The Philosophical Review, 77:45–72, 1968.

• Daniel C. Dennett. Mechanism and responsibility. In Gary Watson, editor. Free Will. OxfordUniversity Press, Oxford, first edition, 1982, page 173.

• Alvin I Goldman. A Theory of Human Action. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1970.

Essay

What is freewill? Do we have it?

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