Abstract

This article describes the contours of contemporary free will debates and provides an overview of the topics in this volume. It considers the following issues: free will and conflicting views about persons; the determinist question and modern science; the compatibility question and arguments for incompatibilism; classical compatibilism; moral responsibility and alternative possibilities; new compatibilist approaches to freedom and responsibility; libertarian or incompatibilist theories of free will; hard determinism, successor views, and other nonstandard theories; neuroscience and free will; and theological determinism and fatalism.

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