Free Will & Action

This book consists of eleven new essays that provide new insights into classical and contemporary issues surrounding free will and human agency. They investigate topics such as the nature of practical knowledge and its role in intentional action; mental content and explanations of action; recent arguments for libertarianism; the situationist challenge to free will; freedom and a theory of narrative configuration; the moral responsibility of the psychopath; and free will and the indeterminism of quantum mechanics. Also tackling some historical precursors of contemporary debates, taken together these essays demonstrate the need for an approach that recognizes the multifaceted nature of free will. This book provides essential reading for anyone interested in the current scholarship on free will.

Autorentext

Filip Grgi (PhD, University of Zagreb) is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb and is currently serving as its Director. His main interests are in ancient philosophy and metaphysics.

Davor Penjak (PhD, University of Zagreb) is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb. His area of interest includes the problem of free will, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of religion.

Inhalt
Introduction.- Chapter 1. Practical Knowledge, Formal Causation and Difference-Making in Acting Intentionally (Urlike Mürbe).- Chapter 2. Wide Content Explanations (Ljudevit Hanek).- Chapter 3. Free Deliberation (Davor Penjak).- Chapter 4. Kane, Balaguer, Libertarianism, and Luck (John Lemos).- Chapter 5. The Situationist Challenge to Free Will (Brian Garvey).- Chapter 6. Narration and the Normative Theory of Freedom (Adam J. Graves).- Chapter 7. Psychopathy, Identification and Mental Time Travel (Luca Malatesti and Filip Ce).- Chapter 8. The Earliest Quantum Missionaries of Free Will: Their Physics, Politics and Religion (Boris Konjak).- Chapter 9. Aristotelian Deliberation Between Compatibilism and Incompatibilism (Filip Grgi).- Chapter 10.- Hobbes and Bramhall on (Free) Will and Freedom (Zoran Gjivo Mimica).- Chapter 11. D'Holbach's Scholastic Conception of the Will (Hasse Hämäläinen).