The Routledge Companion to Free Will

Kevin Timpe, Meghan Griffith, Neil Levy, Kevin Timpe, Meghan Griffith, Neil Levy

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9780367869977
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317635468
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosophy History & Theory

Questions concerning free will are intertwined with issues in almost every area of philosophy, from metaphysics to philosophy of mind to moral philosophy, and are also informed by work in different areas of science (principally physics, neuroscience and social psychology). Free will is also a perennial concern of serious thinkers in theology and in non-western traditions. Because free will can be approached from so many different perspectives and has implications for so many debates, a comprehensive survey needs to encompass an enormous range of approaches. This book is the first to draw together leading experts on every aspect of free will, from those who are central to the current philosophical debates, to non-western perspectives, to scientific contributions and to those who know the rich history of the subject.

Chapter 37 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Index

A Dissertation on the Passions 323

A Free Will – Origins of the Notion in Ancient Thought 227

‘A Theodicy for Today’ 491

A Treatise of Human Nature 323, 324, 325, 327, 329

Abhinavagupta 399

abnormality 97, 98, 99

Abrams, M. 675–6

absence causation 32–3

absent good 320

absolute modality 359–60

abstractly described actions 469, 470, 471

accidental necessity 503, 505

accountability: and blameworthiness 600–606, 607, 608–9;

and criminal law 584, 586; feminist approaches 625, 626, 627–9, 630; and moral responsibility 106, 615–16, 617, 618, 619–21; and Reid 334, 336, 338; and responsibility pluralism 661

Action Challenge 332, 333–6

‘action scripts’ 529

actional synchronic self-control 444–5

‘Actions, Reasons, and Causes’ 648

‘actish phenomenal quality’ 642

active determinism 395–6

active power 56, 79, 276–7, 332, 333, 334–5, 336–7, 338–41

active willing 87, 88, 89, 90, 92, 516

actual causal processes 12, 28, 31

actual grace 535

‘actual sequences’ 8, 12, 184–5, 186–8, 214, 220, 222, 223

actual threats 423

actualization of behaviour-states 333, 334, 335–6, 338

addiction 405–6, 454–5; animal research 457, 463; and compatibilism 454, 455, 456, 459–62, 464; and contingency management treatment 456, 457, 459, 463; disease model of alcohol dependence 458; and external constraints 454, 462–4; Frankfurt-Style examples 459–60; hyperbolic temporal discounting theory 461; incentives to abstain 456–8, 461, 462, 463; irresistibility of addictive desire 455–8, 459–60, 462; ‘maturing out’ of 457; and neuroscience 455...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• List of Contributors
• Introduction
• SECTION I Major Positions in the Free Will Debate
• SECTION II Major Arguments
• SECTION III Historical Figures
• SECTION IV Empirical and Scientific Work
• SECTION V Free Will and Theology
• SECTION VI Special Topics
• Index