Free Will and Determinism Metaphysics Philosophy

Discusses the various problems raised by different concepts of determinism, and presents an argument that physical determinism is compatible with free will.

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• Naturalism.Org - Free Will - A series of essays offering a naturalistic critique of libertarian philosophy free will, arguing that such freedom is illusory, and also philosophy unnecessary to ground our moral practices.
• Who's Afraid of Determinism? Rethinking Causes and Possibilities - A chapter from the \\'The Free Will Handbook\\' free will and determinism (edited by Robert Kane, 2002) by Christopher Taylor free will and determinism and Daniel Dennett.
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Free Will - An overview of theories of free will and free will and determinism the problems that they raise. By Timothy O'Connor.
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Incompatibilist (Nondeterministic) Theories of Free Will - Randolph Clarke\\'s survey of theories of freedom according to which it is inconsistent with causal determinism.
• Lecture Notes on Free Will and Determinism - Prof. Norman Swartz - Discusses the various problems raised by different concepts of determinism, and presents an argument that physical determinism is compatible with free will.
• Online Papers on Consciousness: Free Will - Section on free will from David Chalmers' site.
• Free Will, Determinism, and Moral Responsibility - The Whole Thing in Brief - Ted Honderich\\'s (still quite long) summary of a metaphysics deterministic philosophy metaphysics of mind, and its consequences for metaphysics our fundamental attitudes.
• The Determinism and Freedom Philosophy Website - A comprehensive collection of important papers on the philosophy of free will and determinism free will, freedom and determinism. By Prof. Ted Honderich.
• Determinism as True, Compatibilism and Incompatibilism as Both False, and the Real Problem - A critique of the view that quantum theory disproves determinism, and an argument that freedom is simultaneously compatible and incompatible with determinism. By Prof. Ted Honderich.

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