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This second edition of the Oxford Handbook of Free Will is intended to be a sourcebook and guide to current work on free will and related subjects. Its focus is on writings of the past forty years, in which there has been a resurgence of interest in traditional issues about the freedom of the will in the light of new developments in the sciences, philosophy and humanistic studies. Special attention is given to research on free will of the first decade of the twenty-first century since the publication of the first edition of the Handbook. All the essays have been newly written or rewritten for this volume. In addition, there are new essayists and essays surveying topics that have become prominent in debates about free will in the past decade, including new work on the relation of free will to physics, the neurosciences, cognitive science, psychology and empirical philosophy, new versions of traditional views (compatibilist, incompatibilist, libertarian, etc.) and new views (e.g., revisionism) that have emerged. The twenty-eight essays by prominent international scholars and younger scholars cover a host of free will related issues, such as moral agency and responsibility, accountability and blameworthiness in ethics, autonomy, coercion and control in social theory, criminal liability, responsibility and punishment in legal theory, issues about the relation of mind to body, consciousness and the nature of action in philosophy of mind and the cognitive and neurosciences, questions about divine foreknowledge, providence and human freedom in philosophy of religion, and general metaphysical questions about necessity and possibility, determinism, time and chance, quantum reality, causation and explanation.
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The Oxford Handbook of Free Will: Second Edition Robert Kane Print publication date: Sep 2012 Print ISBN-13: 9780195399691 Published to Oxford Handbooks Online: Sep-12 Subject: Philosophy DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195399691.001.0001 [UNTITLED] • • • Oxford University Press, Inc., publishes works that further Oxford University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education. • • • • Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto • • • • With offices in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam • Copyright © 2011 by Oxford University Press, Inc. • • Published by Oxford University Press, Inc. 198 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016 • www.oup.com • Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press Page 1 of 2 [UNTITLED] PRINTED FROM OXFORD HANDBOOKS ONLINE (www.oxfordhandbooks.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2013. All Rights Reserved. Under the terms of the licence agreement, an individual user may print out a PDF of a single chapter of a title in Oxford Handbooks Online for personal use (for details see Privacy Policy). Subscriber: libgen.org; date: unknown • • • • • • All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. • • Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The Oxford handbook of free will / edited by Robert Kane. — 2nd ed. p. cm. — (Oxford handbooks) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978–0–19–539969–1 (alk. paper) 1. Free will and determinism. 2. Philosophy, Modern—20th century.3. Ethics, Modern—20th century. I.