Four Views on Free Will

Four Views on Free Will is a revised and updated debate about free will, featuring four representative views: libertarianism, compatibilism, hard incompatibilism, and revisionism. The second edition includes eight in-depth chapters, with authors defending their positions and engaging in dialogue. It is an essential reading for undergraduate and graduate students, lecturers, and scholars in philosophy, ethics, free will, philosophy of mind, political philosophy, law, and related subjects.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 15 February 2024
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Four Views on Free Will is a lively and engaging debate about free will, completely revised and updated with new perspectives. It provides the most up-to-date account of four major positions in the free will debate, presented by renowned philosophers John Martin Fischer, Robert Kane, Derk Pereboom, and Manuel Vargas. The second edition of this classic text contains eight in-depth chapters, almost entirely rewritten for the new edition, in which the authors state their different positions on the debate, offer insights into how their views have evolved over the past fifteen years, respond to recent critical literature in the field, and interact and engage with each other in dialogue.

In the first four chapters, the authors defend their distinctive views about free will: libertarianism, compatibilism, hard incompatibilism, and revisionism. The subsequent four chapters consist of direct replies by each of the authors to the other three.

Offering a one-of-a-kind interactive conversation about the most recent work on the subject, Four Views on Free Will, Second Edition provides a balanced and enlightening discussion on all the key concepts and conflicts in the free will debate. It is part of the acclaimed Great Debates in Philosophy series and remains essential reading for undergraduate and graduate students, lecturers, and scholars in philosophy, ethics, free will, philosophy of mind, political philosophy, law, and related subjects.

Weight: 398g
Dimension: 152 x 229 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781394161966
Edition number: 2 ed