Determinism and Free Will

Here are some important pieces of writing on the various subjects in the philosophy of Determinism and Freedom. The name of this philosophy might have been Determinism and Free Will, since in this context 'free will' is often used generally to mean the same as 'freedom'. In fact there is such a philosophical custom. It is better, however, despite that disadvantage, to use the term 'free will' in a particular way, for a particular kind of freedom -- for one species included in the genus 'freedom'. This is what is also called origination. The subjects in the philosophy of Determinism and Freedom include the nature of causation, the different kind of freedom that is voluntariness rather than free will or orgination, and so on.

For those who want a guide to the language of it all, some technical, try Determinism, Freedom and Free Will Philosophy -- The Terminology.

1 CAUSATION -- WHAT IS IT?

Thomas Hobbes: Entire Causes and Their Only Possible Effects
Thomas Hobbes: Causation Itself, Determinism, and their Compatibility with Freedom
Ted Honderich: Causality and Causation -- the Fundamental Fact Plainly Explained
David Hume: Causal Connection Is Constant Conjunction


2 DETERMINISM, UNDERSTANDING IT

Thomas Hobbes: Causation Itself, Determinism, and their Compatibility with Freedom
Ted Honderich: Mind Brain Connection
Ted Honderich: Mind and Brain Explanation
Immanuel Kant: For Determinism in a Way and also Indeterminism, and for Freedom of Origination Being Consistent with the Determinism
Derk Pereboom: Meaning in Life Without Free Will


3 INDETERMINISM, UNDERSTANDING IT

Immanuel Kant: For Determinism in a Way and also Indeterminism, and for Freedom of Origination Being Consistent with the Determinism
Robert Kane: Reflections on Free Will, Determinism and Indeterminism
Ted Honderich: Mind the Guff -- John Searle's Thinking on Consciousness and Free Will Examined
Thomas Nagel: Freedom and the View From Nowhere


4 DETERMINISM OR INDETERMINISM -- WHICH IS TRUE?

John Earman: Determinism: What We Have Learned and What We Still Don't Know
Ted Honderich: Determinism as True, Compatibilism and Incompatibilism as Both False, and the Real Problem
David Hume: The Obviousness of the Truth of Determinism
Dana Nelkin: The Sense of Freedom


5 DETERMINISM'S POSSIBLE CONSEQUENCES FOR OUR LIVES

Ted Honderich: Determinism's Consequences -- The Mistakes of Compatibilism and Incompatibilism, and What Is To Be Done Now
Thomas Nagel: Freedom and the View from Nowhere
Derk Pereboom: Meaning in Life Without Free Will
Peter Strawson: Freedom and Resentment


6 COMPATIBILISM -- FREEDOM AS VOLUNTARINESS

Ansgar Beckermann: Free Will in a Natural Order of the World
Joseph Keim Campbell: Compatibilist Alternatives
Harry Frankfurt: Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility
Thomas Hobbes: Causation Itself, Determinism, and their Compatibility with Freedom
David Hume: Freedom Reconciled with Necessity
Tomis Kapitan: Deliberation and the Presumption of Open Alternatives
Keith Lehrer: Freedom and the Power of Preference
Alfred Mele: Agnostic Autonomism
Peter Strawson: Freedom and Resentment
John Martin Fischer & Mark Ravizza: Morally Responsible People Without a Freedom
Christopher Taylor & Daniel Dennett: Who's Afraid of Determinism? -- Rethinking Causes and Possibilities



7 INCOMPATIBILISM -- FREEDOM AS ORIGINATION OR FREE WILL AS WELL AS VOLUNTARINESS

Bishop Bramhall: The Pretty Freedom of Thomas Hobbes that Goes With Necessity
Richard Double: The Moral Hardness of Libertarianism
Ted Honderich, Mind and Brain Explanation
Ted Honderich, On Libet -- Is the Mind Ahead of the Brain? Behind It?
Immanuel Kant: For Determinism in a Way and also Indeterminism, and for Freedom of Origination Being Consistent with the Determinism
Robert Kane: Reflections on Free Will, Determinism and Indeterminism
John Martin Fischer & Mark Ravizza: Morally Responsible People Without a Freedom
Peter van Inwagen: The Mystery of Metaphysical Freedom
Peter Van Inwagen: Van Inwagen on Free Will
Ted Honderich: Mind the Guff -- John Searle on Consciousness and Freedom Examined
Alfred Mele: Agnostic Autonomism
Thomas Nagel: Freedom and the View from Nowhere


8 NEITHER COMPATIBILISM NOR INCOMPATIBILISM

Richard Double: Misdirection in the Philosophy of Mind
Ted Honderich: Determinism as True, Compabilism and Incompatibilism as Both False, and the Real Problem
Ted Honderich: After Compatibilism and Incompatibilism
Immanuel Kant: For Determinism in a Way and also Indeterminism, and for Freedom of Origination Being Consistent with the Determinism
Shaun Nichols, Folk Intuitions on Free Will
Shaun Nichols & Joshua Kobe, Moral Responsibility and Determinism: The Cognitive Science of Folk Intuitions
Saul Smilansky: Free Will, Fundamental Dualism, and the Centrality of Illusion
Ulrich Steinvorth, A Third Concept of Freedom of the Will
Galen Strawson: Free Will
Manuel Vargas, The Revisionist's Guide to Responsibility


9 THE NEW AND HARDER PROBLEM?

Ted Honderich, How Free Are You?
Ted Honderich: Determinism as True, Compatibilism and Incompatibilism as Both False, and the Real Problem
Ted Honderich: After Compatibilism and Incompatibilism


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