The problem introduced : Would determinism rob us of free will? -- The problem distinguished : Is it possible for us to have free will? Do we have free will? -- Abilities, choices, and agent causation -- The unavoidability of metaphysics : moral responsibility and ability to do otherwise -- Arguments for incompatibilism -- The abilities and dispositions of our freedom -- Laws, conterfactuals, and fixed past compatabilism
Summary
This book rescues compatibilists from the familiar charge of 'quagmire of evasion' by arguing that the problem of free will and determinism is a metaphysical problem with a metaphysical solution. There is no good reason to think that determinism would rob us of the free will we think we have
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-277) and index