Common sense tells us that we are morally responsible for our actions only if we have free
will-and that we have free will only if we are able to choose among alternative actions …

In this comprehensive new study of human free agency, Laura Waddell Ekstrom critically
surveys contemporary philosophical literature and provides a novel account of the …

An argument that the problem of free will boils down to an open scientific question about the
causal histories of certain kinds of neural events. In this largely antimetaphysical treatment of …

This book explores an important issue within the free will debate: the relation between free
will and moral responsibility. In his seminal article'Alternate Possibilities and Moral …

This article, from a compatiblist viewpoint, argues that the Consequence Argument fails to
prove incompatibilism, and develops criticisms of it that, for the most part, are already in the …

The critical issue concerning principle of alternative possibilities (PAP), then, is not whether
it is always possible that an agent who is morally responsible for performing a certain action …

This chapter presents a counterexample to what Harry Frankfurt dubbed 'the principle of
alternate possibilities'(PAP): A person is morally responsible for what he has done only if he …

How can we teach machine learning to identify causal patterns in data? This book explores
the very notion of" causality", identifying from a naturalistic and evolutionary perspective how …

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Counter factual theories of Causation have had problems with cases of probabilistic
causation and preemption. I put forward a counterfactual theory that seems to deal with …