Free Will and Moral Responsibility, Volume XXIX

The essays in this volume explore various issues pertaining to human agency, such as the relationship between free will and causal determinism, and the nature and conditions of moral responsibility. The authors build on and extend some of the very best work on this set of topics. The debates are lively and vigorous, and connections are forged between abstract philosophical theorizing and applied work in neuroscience and even criminal law. This volume should be of interest to philosophers and theorists interested in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, ethics, and the law.

John Martin Fischer earned his B.A. and M.A. in philosophy from Stanford University in 1975, and his Ph.D. in philosophy from Cornell University in 1982. He has written on such topics as free will, causal determinism, theological determinism, moral responsibility, abortion, death, immortality, and the meaning of life. He is the author of The Metaphysics of Free Will: An Essay of Control (Blackwell, 1994); and (with Mark Ravizza, S.J.) Responsibility and Control: A Theory of Moral Responsibility (1998). A selection of his papers will be published in My Way: Essays on Moral Responsibility (forthcoming 2005).