About the Cover
What Philosophers Are Saying About Free Will
Why The Free Will Scandal Should Matter To You
Title Pages
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Sidebars

How to Use this Book, 1; On Omniscience, Omnipotence, Benevolence, 5; About Information Philosophy and Physics, 8; Two Steps in Cosmic Information Creation, 12; Information and Predictability, 13

A Knowledge Scandal, 15; A Moral Scandal?, 17

Hobart's Determination, 23

Part One - The Determinism Objection, 28; Part Two - The Randomness Objection, 29; Examples of the Standard Argument, 30; What’s Wrong with the Standard Argument?, 46; The Standard Argument in Antiquity, 49; Summary, 53

Part One - The Randomness Requirement, 55; Part Two - The Determinism Requirement, 56; Part Three - The Responsibility Requirement, 56; Freedom, Will, and Moral Responsibility, 57

Van Inwagen’s Incompatibilism Changes the Taxonomy, 60

The PreSocratics, 70; Aristotle, 71; The Stoics, 74; Hellenistic Thinking, 75; Early Christians, 75; Classicists, 76-83; Scholastics, 83; The Renaissance, 84; The Rationalists, 84; The Empiricists, 85; Probabilists, 89; Kant, 90; Five Post-Kantian Shocks, 92; Evolution , 92; Thermodynamics, 92; Logic, 93; Quantum Mechanics, 93; Mathematics, 93; Determinists, 94; Libertarians, 94; Compatibilists, 94; Germans in the 19th century, 95; Rise of Statistical Thinking, 96; Quantum Indeterminacy, 102; Quantum Mysteries, 109; Free Will Specialists, 112; Experimental Philosophy, 128; Forking Paths, 130

Actualism, Possibilism, Probabilism, 143

The Determinisms, 146

Giving Compatibilists What They Say They Want, 158

James, 161; Poincaré, 165; Hadamard, 165; Compton, 166; Adler, 167; Popper, 168; Margenau, 170; Dennett 171; Kane, 172; Long and Sedley, 176; Penrose, 177; Annas, 177; Mele, 178; Fischer, 179; Kosslyn, 181; Searle, 183; Heisenberg, 184

Micro Mind 190; Macro Mind, 192; Six Critical Aspects Of Chance, 195; Temporal Sequence, 196; Doing Otherwise, 197; Second Thoughts, 199; Undetermined Liberties, 200; Free Thoughts, Willed Actions, 200; The Cogito Compared to Other Models, 201

Daniel Dennett’s Objections, 205; Robert Kane’s Objections, 206; Richard Double’s Objections to Kane’s “dual rational control.”, 209; Alfred Mele’s Doubts about his own “Modest Libertarianism.”, 210; Randolph Clarke’s Objections to Dennett, Mele, Ekstrom, and Kane., 211; The Luck Objections of Thomas Nagel, Bernard Williams, and Alfred Mele, 216; Thomas Nagel, 217; Bernard Williams, 218; Alfred Mele, 219, How the Cogito Model Meets the Objections, 220

Quantum Physics, 225; Special Relativity and the Block Universe, 225; Nonlocality and Entanglement, 228; The Free Will Theorem, 230; The Free Will Axiom, 231; The Contribution of Quantum Mechanics, 232

Creativity in the Immune System, 236; Bacterial Chemotaxis, 237; An Error Detection and Correction System, 238; Neurotransmitter Release as a Noise Source, 238; Four Levels of Selection, 239

Libet’s Experiment, 241

The Experience Recorder Reproducer (ERR), 245; Four Levels of Consciousness, 247

Peter Strawson Changed the Subject, 250; Are only Moral Decisions Free?, 251; Naturalism and Moral Responsibility, 252; The Fischer/Mele Hypothesis, 253; The Acquired Freedom of Self-Perfection, 253

“Free” from “Will”, 256; “Moral” from “Responsibility.” 258; “Free Will” from “Moral Responsibility,” 259; SeparatePunishment, 260

Blind Variation and Selective Retention (BVSR), 276

The Failure of Compatibilism and Incompatibilism, 280; Consequences of Determinism, 284; On Consciousness and Radical Externalism, 288; Consciousness as Existence, 290

Kane’s Libertarian Free Will Model, 297; Free Will and Values, 298; The Significance of Free Will, 303; A Contemporary Introduction to Free Will, 305; Four Views on Free Will, 310; The Cogito Model, 315; Kane’s SFAs, 316; Kane’s Businesswoman, 320; Kane in Barcelona, 320; Kane at Harvard, 322; The Oxford Handbook of Free Will, 323

Evolution as an Algorithmic Process, 329; How Quantum Indeterminism Might Matter?, 330; Laplace’s Demon, 331; Intelligent Designers, 331; Frankfurt Controllers, 332; Dennett’s Eavesdropper, 332; Creating New Memes, 333; Valerian Model, 333; Who’s Afraid of Indeterminism?, 334

Agnostic Autonomous Agents, 338; Modest Libertarianism, 338; Problem about Luck, 340; Modest Libertarianism (redux), 341; Mele’s Other Models for Free Will, 347; The Strawson/Fischer/Mele Hypothesis and Strawson/Doyle Hypothesis 350; Libet Experiments, 350; Big Questions in Free Will, 351

What if Libertarians Had Accepted What Dan Dennett Gave To Them In 1978?, 353; It takes two - Cogito and Intelligo, 355; What If Kane and Dennett Had Done Otherwise?, 356

Cosmic Creation and Free Will, 381; Information and Love, 383

Some Philosophical Problems, 384, Some Physics Problems, 386