THE DETERMINISM AND FREEDOM PHILOSOPHY WEBSITE 
edited by Ted Honderich

INTRODUCTION AND INDEX

On offer here eventually will be a good selection of the most important pieces of writing on the various subjects in the philosophy of Determinism and Freedom. The name of this philosophy might have been Determinism and Free Will, since in this context 'free will' is often used generally to mean the same as 'freedom'. In fact there is such a philosophical custom. It is better, however, despite that disadvantage,  to use the term 'free will' in a particular way, for a particular kind of freedom -- for one species included in the genus 'freedom'. This is what is also called origination. The subjects in the philosophy of Determinism and Freedom include the nature of causation, the different kind of freedom that is voluntariness rather than free will or orgination,  and so on.

For those who want a guide to the language of it all, some technical, try Determinism, Freedom and Free Will Philosophy -- The Terminology.

Do you ask in what sense the selected and to a lesser extent the selected and the listed pieces are the 'most important'? You should. The answer is a pretty standard one, if not always made explicit. It is not easily given, and not easy to be brief about. 

Some things are included or listed because they are well-known or famous to philosophers generally and might be true -- true in the judgement of your guide. Some other writings, not many, are included because they might be true, necessarily again in the judgement of the guide -- without being well-known or famous. If there is something to be said for trying to go by the annointing judgements of a lot of other people, there is also something to be said for presenting one philosopher's more or less coherent view. 

There is the necessary and satisfactory upshot of this policy that what is included and listed does indeed include works by Guide that have not become famous.

In the index that follows some pieces, for good reason, are listed in more than one section. In fact a good many pieces have a claim, at least a little, to be listed in more sections than they are. Almost all the pieces, for example, at least touch on the nature of causation and the truth of determinism.
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1 CAUSATION -- WHAT IS IT?

Thomas Hobbes: Entire Causes and Their Only Possible Effects

Thomas Hobbes: Causation Itself, Determinism, and their Compatibility with Freedom

Ted Honderich: Causality and Causation -- the Fundamental Fact Plainly Explained

David Hume: Causal Connection Is Constant Conjunction
 

2 DETERMINISM, UNDERSTANDING IT

Thomas Hobbes: Causation Itself, Determinism, and their Compatibility with Freedom

Ted Honderich: Mind Brain Connection

Ted Honderich: Mind and Brain Explanation

Immanuel Kant: For Determinism in a Way and also Indeterminism, and for Freedom of Origination Being Consistent with the Determinism

Derk Pereboom: Meaning in Life Without Free Will
 

3 INDETERMINISM, UNDERSTANDING IT 

Immanuel Kant: For Determinism in a Way and also Indeterminism, and for Freedom of Origination Being Consistent with the Determinism

Robert Kane: Reflections on Free Will, Determinism and Indeterminism

Ted Honderich: Mind the Guff -- John Searle's Thinking on Consciousness and Free Will Examined

Thomas Nagel: Freedom and the View From Nowhere
 

4 DETERMINISM OR INDETERMINISM -- WHICH IS TRUE?

John Earman: Determinism: What We Have Learned and What We Still Don't Know

Ted Honderich: Determinism as True, Compatibilism and Incompatibilism as Both False, and the Real Problem

David Hume: The Obviousness of the Truth of Determinism  

Dana Nelkin: The Sense of Freedom


5 DETERMINISM'S POSSIBLE CONSEQUENCES FOR OUR LIVES 

Ted Honderich: Determinism's Consequences -- The Mistakes of Compatibilism and Incompatibilism, and What Is To Be Done Now

Thomas Nagel: Freedom and the View from Nowhere

Derk Pereboom: Meaning in Life Without Free Will

Peter Strawson: Freedom and Resentment
 

6 COMPATIBILISM -- FREEDOM AS VOLUNTARINESS

Ansgar Beckermann: Free Will in a Natural Order of the World

Joseph Keim Campbell: Compatibilist Alternatives

Harry Frankfurt: Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility

Thomas Hobbes: Causation Itself, Determinism, and their Compatibility with Freedom

David Hume: Freedom Reconciled with Necessity

Tomis Kapitan: Deliberation and the Presumption of Open Alternatives

Keith Lehrer: Freedom and the Power of Preference

Alfred Mele: Agnostic Autonomism

Peter Strawson: Freedom and Resentment

John Martin  Fischer & Mark Ravizza: Morally Responsible People Without a Freedom

Christopher Taylor & Daniel Dennett: Who's Afraid of Determinism? -- Rethinking Causes and Possibilities

    

7 INCOMPATIBILISM -- FREEDOM AS ORIGINATION OR FREE WILL AS WELL AS VOLUNTARINESS

Bishop Bramhall: The Pretty Freedom of Thomas Hobbes that Goes With Necessity

Richard Double: The Moral Hardness of Libertarianism

Ted Honderich, Mind and Brain Explanation

Ted Honderich, On Libet -- Is the Mind Ahead of the Brain? Behind It?

Immanuel Kant: For Determinism in a Way and also Indeterminism, and for Freedom of Origination Being Consistent with the Determinism

Robert Kane: Reflections on Free Will, Determinism and Indeterminism

John Martin Fischer & Mark Ravizza: Morally Responsible People Without a Freedom

Peter van Inwagen: The Mystery of Metaphysical Freedom

Peter Van Inwagen: Van Inwagen on Free Will

Ted Honderich: Mind the Guff -- John Searle on Consciousness and Freedom Examined

Alfred Mele: Agnostic Autonomism

Thomas Nagel: Freedom and the View from Nowhere
 

8 NEITHER COMPATIBILISM NOR INCOMPATIBILISM

Richard Double: Misdirection in the Philosophy of Mind

Ted Honderich: Determinism as True, Compabilism and Incompatibilism as Both False, and the Real Problem

Ted Honderich: After Compatibilism and Incompatibilism

Immanuel Kant: For Determinism in a Way and also Indeterminism, and for Freedom of Origination Being Consistent with the Determinism

Shaun Nichols, Folk Intuitions on Free Will

Shaun Nichols & Joshua Kobe, Moral Responsibility and Determinism: The Cognitive Science of Folk Intuitions

Saul Smilansky: Free Will, Fundamental Dualism, and the Centrality of Illusion
      
Ulrich Steinvorth, A Third Concept of Freedom of the Will

Galen Strawson: Free Will

Manuel Vargas, The Revisionist's Guide to Responsibility


9 THE NEW AND HARDER PROBLEM?
 

Ted Honderich, How Free Are You?

Ted Honderich: Determinism as True, Compatibilism and Incompatibilism as Both False, and the Real Problem

Ted Honderich: After Compatibilism and Incompatibilism


      
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