Abstract
Abstract This chapter examines two kinds of route to the conclusion that free will does not exist. The first features the device of setting the bar for free will absurdly high, and the second highlights a pair of familiar philosophical arguments—the No Free Will Either Way Argument and the Impossible Regress Argument. In response to the first route, data from survey-style studies in social psychology and experimental philosophy are used to show that certain lofty alleged requirements for free will—for example, that free will depends on the existence of souls—in addition to being philosophically unsupported, are not supported by the majority of nonspecialists. Related data on moral responsibility are also presented. The two philosophical arguments are examined and shown to be faulty.
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