Directory of Free Will and Determinism Resources

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Sites and papers addressing questions of determinism and/or free will and their implications.

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• Bañez, Domingo
• La Mettrie, Julien Offray de
• Strawson, Peter

Resources in This Category

• Determinism as True, Compatibilism and Incompatibilism as Both False, and the Real Problem

  http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/detkanebook.html
  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.

• Exploring the Illusion of Free Will

  http://causalconsciousness.com/
  Produced, written, and hosted by George Ortega as a weekly television series about of our unconscious, causal human will. The half-hour shows are recorded in the studio of the White Plains, New York Public Access Cable Television Channels (Verizon 45 and Cablevision 76), and premiered on January 6, 2011.

• Free Will, Determinism, and Moral Responsibility - The Whole Thing in Brief

  http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/ted12.htm
  Ted Honderich's (still quite long) summary of a deterministic philosophy of mind, and its consequences for our fundamental attitudes.

• Lecture Notes on Free Will and Determinism - Prof. Norman Swartz

  http://www.sfu.ca/philosophy/swartz/freewill1.htm
  Discusses the various problems raised by different concepts of determinism, and presents an argument that physical determinism is compatible with free will.

• Online Papers on Consciousness: Free Will

  http://consc.net/online/5.4
  Section on free will from David Chalmers' site.

• Philpapers Survey Results

  http://philpapers.org/surveys/results.pl
  This is the results page for the biggest ever survey of professional philosophers, giving an account of what philosophers believe, including in the context of free will and determinism. The site also offers a range of papers within this discipline, as well as other philosophical areas.

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Free Will

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freewill/
  An overview of theories of free will and the problems that they raise. By Timothy O'Connor.

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Incompatibilist (Nondeterministic) Theories of Free Will

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/incompatibilism-theories/
  Randolph Clarke's survey of theories of freedom according to which it is inconsistent with causal determinism.

• The Determinism and Freedom Philosophy Website

  http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/dfwIntroIndex.htm
  A comprehensive collection of important papers on the philosophy of free will, freedom and determinism. By Prof. Ted Honderich.

• The Information Philosopher: "Free Will"

  http://www.informationphilosopher.com/freedom/free_will.html
  It is dedicated to the new information philosophy, with explanations for freedom, values, and knowledge. An overview on free will, linking to compatibilism and determinism.

• The internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Free Will

  http://www.iep.utm.edu/freewill/
  A good entry and starting point for ideas and theories of free will. There is also a good entry on 'Foreknowledge and Free Will'.

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