Free Will: Sourcehood and its Alternatives

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FC; Half Title; Also available from Bloomsbury; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgments; PART ONE Introducing the issues; 1 The basics; Introduction; Moral responsibility; Free will; Choices and actions; The thesis of causal determinism; 2 The compatibility question; Compatibilism and incompatibilism; Kinds of incompatibilism and compatibilism; The consequence argument; 3 Revisionist accounts; Moving beyond compatibilism and incompatibilism; Ted Honderich; Manuel Vargas; The moral of the story; Conclusion; 4 Free will skepticism; Introduction; Free will affirmation; Free will skepticism.;Contemporary debates on free will are numerous and multifaceted. According to compatibilists, it is possible for an agent to be determined in all her choices and actions and still be free. Incompatibilists, on the other hand, think that the existence of free will is incompatible with the truth of determinism. There are also two dominant conceptions of the nature of free will. According to the first, it is primarily a function of being able to do otherwise than one in fact does. The second approach focuses on issues of sourcehood, holding that free will is primarily a function of an agent being.