From the New York Times bestselling author of The End of Faith, a thought-provoking, "brilliant and witty" (Oliver Sacks) look at the notion of free will—and

Focusing on the concepts and interactions of free will, moralresponsibility, and determinism, this text represents the mostup-to-date account of the four major

The question of whether humans are free to make their own decisions has long been debated and it continues to be a controversial topic today. In Free Will: The

Much contemporary scholarship on free will focuses on whether it is compatible with causal determinism. According to compatibilists, it is possible for an agent

The question whether human choices and actions are causally determined or are in a way free, and the implications of this for our moral, personal and social liv