The Philosophy of Free Will:: Essential Readings from the Contemporary Debates
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Introduction I. The Free Will Problem - Real or illusory? 1. Thomas Nagel - Moral Luck 2. Daniel Dennett - Please Don't Feed the Bugbears II. Naturalism Against Scepticism 3. P. F. Strawson - Freedom and Resentment 4. Gary Watson - Responsibility and the Limits of Evil: Variations on a Strawsonian Theme III. The Consequence Argument 5. Peter van Inwagen - The Incompatibility of Free Will and Determinism 6. Dana Nelkin - The Consequence Argument and the Mind Argument IV. Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities 7. Harry Frankfurt - Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility 8. Michael Otsuka - Incompatibilism and the Avoidability of Blame 9. Kadri Vihvelin - Free Will Demystified: A Dispositional Account V. Libertarian Alternatives - Soft and Hard 10. Robert Kane - Responsibility, Luck and Chance: Reflections on Free Will and Determinism 11. Randolph Clarke - Towards a Credible Agent-Causal Account of Free Will 12. Timothy O'Connor - Agent-Causal Power VI. Compatibilism: Hierarchical Theories and Manipulation Problems 13. Harry Frankfurt - Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person 14. Richard Double - Puppeteers, Hypnotists, and Neurosurgeons VII. Compatibilism: Reason-Based Alternatives 15. Susan Wolf - Sanity and the Metaphysics of Responsibility 16. John M. Fischer - My Compatibilism VIII. Autonomy and History 17. John Christman - Autonomy and Personal History 18. Michael McKenna - Responsibility & Globally Manipulated Agents IX. Scepticism, Illusionism and Revisionism 19. Galen Strawson - The Impossibility of Ultimate Moral Responsibility 20. Saul Smilansky - Free Will: From Nature to Illusion 21. Manuel Vargas - How To Solve the Free Will Problem X. Optimism, Pessimism and their Modes 22. Derk Pereboom - Optimistic Skepticism about Free Will 23. Paul Russell - Compatibilist-Fatalism XI. The Phenomenology of Agency and Experimental Philosophy 24. Benjamin Libet - Do We have Free Will? 25. Eddy Nahmias, Stephen Morris, Thomas Nadelhoffer & Jason Turner - The Phenomenology of Free Will 26. Shaun Nichols & Joshua Knobe - Moral Responsibility and Determinism: The Cognitive Science of Folk Intuitions
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.016 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.009 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.013 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".