Exploring the illusion of free will and moral responsibility / edited by Gregg D. Caruso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Introduction: Exploring the illusion of free will and moral responsibility / Gregg D. Caruso -- I Philosophical explorations: Free will skepticism and its implications -- Skepticism about free will / Derk Pereboom -- The impossibility of ultimate responsibility? / Galen Strawson -- Determinism, incompatibilism and compatibilism, actual consciousness and subjective physical worlds, humanity / Ted Honderich -- The stubborn illusion of moral responsibility / Bruce Waller -- Be a skeptic, not a metaskeptic / Neil Levy -- Free will as a case of "crazy ethics" / Saul Smilansky -- The potential dark side of believing in free will (and related concepts): some preliminary findings / Thomas Nadelhoffer and Daniela Goya Tocchetto -- The people problem / Benjamin Vilhauer -- Living without free will / Susan Blackmore -- If free will doesn't exist, neither does water / Manuel Vargas -- Free will and error / Shaun Nichols -- II Scientific explorations: The behavioral, cognitive, and neurosciences -- The complex network of intentions / John-Dylan Haynes and Michael Pauen -- Experience and autonomy: Why consciousness does and doesn't matter / Thomas W. Clark -- What does the brain know and when does it know it? / Mark Hallett -- If free will did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it / Susan Pockett -- Free will, an illusion? An answer from a pragmatic sentimentalist point of view / Maureen Sie.

Exploring the Illusion of Free Will and Moral Responsibility is an edited collection of new essays by an internationally recognized line-up of contributors. It is aimed at readers who wish to explore the philosophical and scientific arguments for free will skepticism and their implications.

English.

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