Free Will & Action

This book consists of eleven new essays that provide new insights into classical and contemporary issues surrounding free will and human agency. They investigate topics such as the nature of practical knowledge and its role in intentional action; mental content and explanations of action; recent arguments for libertarianism; the situationist challenge to free will; freedom and a theory of narrative configuration; the moral responsibility of the psychopath; and free will and the indeterminism of quantum mechanics. Also tackling some historical precursors of contemporary debates, taken together these essays demonstrate the need for an approach that recognizes the multifaceted nature of free will. This book provides essential reading for anyone interested in the current scholarship on free will.

• Aristotle’s Deliberation Compatibilism
• D’Holbach’s Conception of the Will
• Free Will and Quantum Indeterminacy
• Hobbess and Bramhall on Free Will
• Main Recent Arguments For Libertarianism
• Practical Knowledge and Action Explanation
• Situationism and Free Will
• Anscombian claim
• Ascriptions of wide mental content
• Ascriptions of narrow mental content
• Human deliberating
• Libertarian freedom
• Event-causal libertarian theory of free will

• Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb, Croatia

  Filip Grgić, Davor Pećnjak

Filip Grgić (PhD, University of Zagreb) is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb and is currently serving as its Director. His main interests are in ancient philosophy and metaphysics.

Davor Pećnjak (PhD, University of Zagreb) is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb. His area of interest includes the problem of free will, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of religion.

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