Thought Probes

Self-consciousness and Free Will: Is it possible for a self-conscious being not to have free will?
Naturalistic, Libertarian Free Will (http://wwwcms.brookes.ac.uk/~p0054139/FreeWill/NaturalisticFreeWill.rtf) Article by Peter Ellis arguing that everything has some freedom because everything has a psychic component



Notes on Frankfurt (http://icg.harvard.edu/~mr56/handouts/week4_frankfurt_notes.pdf) Lecture notes by Richard Moran (Harvard University)



Free Will, Three Kinds of Selves, and Moral Realislm (http://www.psy.mpg.de/MPIPF/vw-symp-texte/vierkant.pdf) Article by Till Verkant (Max Planck Institute) arguing that our concept of self is related to free will



Human Thinking (http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/THINKING.html) Article from the Principia Cybernetica Web arguing that our ability to control associations among ideas is the origin of thought and free will



Sartre on (http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/billramey/sartre.htm) Article by Ernest Brown explicating Sartre's notion of bad faith

Free Androids: Could a computer have free will?
Free Will--Even for Robots (http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/freewill/freewill.html) Article by John McCarthy on the possibility of robotic free will



Flesh, Robots, and God (http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/02/25/flesh_machines/index.html) Interview with Rodney Brooks by John Glassie for Salon.com



Free Will, Determinism, Moral Responsibility, and Robots (http://www.mind.ilstu.edu/research/persons/fwdt/intro.html) Article by Kenton Machina for the Mind Project



Truly Intelligent Computers (http://www.cni.org/pub/LITA/Think/Bailey.html) Article by Charles W. Baily, Jr. (University of Houston) exploring the properties of truly intelligent computers



I don't think people have any free will and I am building robots to try to prove it. (http://www.thecyberiad.net/Introduction/) Article from the Cyberiad.net



How to Dispose of the Free Will Issue (http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/cogaff/Aaron.Sloman_freewill.pdf) Article by Aaron Sloman (University of Binghamton)



Robots and Rights: The Ethical Demands of Artificial Agents (http://www.abdn.ac.uk/philosophy/cpts/as3.hti) Article by Matthew Elton (University of Stirling)

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