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- Determinism as True, Compatibilism and Incompatibilism as Both False, and the Real Problem - A critique of the view that quantum theory disproves determinism, and an argument that freedom is simultaneously compatible and incompatible with determinism. By Prof. Ted Honderich.
www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/detkanebook.html
- Free Will - From the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
plato.stanford.edu/entries/freewill
- Free Will and Determinism - The full text of a chapter from 'The Foundations of Morality', by Henry Hazlitt.
www.hazlitt.org/e-texts/morality/ch27.html
- Free Will, Determinism, and Moral Responsibility - The Whole Thing in Brief - Ted Honderich's (still quite long) summary of a deterministic philosophy of mind, and its consequences for our fundamental attitudes.
www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/ted12.htm
- Incompatibilist (Nondeterministic) Theories of Free Will - From the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
plato.stanford.edu/entries/incompatibilism-theories
- Lecture Notes on Free Will and Determinism - Prof. Norman Swartz - Discusses the various problems raised by different concepts of determinism, and presents an argument that physical determinism is compatible with free will.
www.sfu.ca/philosophy/swartz/freewill1.htm
- Living Without Free Will - Argues that accepting that we do not possess free will would not have the dire consequences for moral responsibility, the law and life in general, that have been assumed.
www.theunityofknowledge.org/living_without_free_will/title_page.htm
- Naturalism.Org - Free Will - A series of essays offering a naturalistic critique of libertarian free will, arguing that such freedom is illusory, and also unnecessary to ground our moral practices.
world.std.com/~twc/freewill.htm
- Online Papers on Consciousness: Free Will - Section on free will from David Chalmers' site.
www.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers/online2.html#freewill
- The Determinism and Freedom Philosophy Website - A comprehensive collection of important papers on the philosophy of free will, freedom and determinism. By Prof. Ted Honderich.
www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/dfwIntroIndex.htm
- The Free Will Fiction - Argues that we do not possess free will, providing an explanation for the 'illusion' of free will.
www.theunityofknowledge.org/the_free_will_fiction/title_page.htm
- Who's Afraid of Determinism? Rethinking Causes and Possibilities - A chapter from the 'The Free Will Handbook' (edited by Robert Kane, 2002) by Christopher Taylor and Daniel Dennett.
ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/kitdraft.htm
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