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Doing Philosophy: An Introduction Through Thought Experiments, 2/e
Theodore Schick, Muhlenberg College
Lewis Vaughn
Free Will and Determinism

Issues and Applications

The Problem of Free Will



Free Will?
(http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/freewill1.html)

An interactive test of free will using ambiguous figures from Serendip (Bryn Mawr)
Freedom and Determinism
(http://www.xrefer.com/entry.jsp?xrefid=552117)

Oxford Companion to Philosophy article
Free Will
(http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freewill/)

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article
Free Will
(http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will)

Wikipedia article
Free will and determinism
(http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will_and_determinism)

Wikipedia article
Free Will
(http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06259a.htm)

Catholic Encyclopedia article
The Determinism and Freedom Philosophy Website
(http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/dfwIntroIndex.htm)

Extensive collection of classical and contemporary writings (with abstracts) edited by Ted Honderich (University College London)
Free Will and Determinism
(http://www.princeton.edu/~jimpryor/courses/intro/notes/determinism.html)

Lecture notes by James Pryor (Princeton University).
Free Will and Determinism
(http://www.trinity.edu/cbrown/intro/free_will.html)

Summary of traditional views by Curtis Brown (Trinity University)
Free Will as a Problem in Neurobiology
(http://www.theunityofknowledge.org/the_free_will_fiction/searle.htm)

Article by John Searle (UC Berkeley) outlining the difficulty of squaring our belief in free will with our current understanding of the brain
Lecture Notes on Free Will and Determinism
(http://www.sfu.ca/philosophy/swartz/freewill1.htm)

Detailednotes by Norman Swartz (Simon Fraser University)
Free Will
(http://world.std.com/~twc/freewill.htm)

Collection of links by Tom Clark (Naturalism.org)
Recent writing on the self and free will
(http://world.std.com/~twc/resource.htm#Writings)

Summary of recent work on free will byTom Clark (Naturalism.org)

Scientific Determinism



The Society of Natural Science
(http://www.determinism.com/)

Website promoting total determinism
Naturalism
(http://www.naturalism.org/)

Website promoting naturalism

Theological determinism



Theological determinism
(http://www.faithnet.freeserve.co.uk/theologicaldeterminism.htm)

Discussion from Faithnet
Theological determinism
(http://members.aol.com/kiekeben/theological.html)

Overview by Franz Kiekeben (Ohio State University)
Determinism
(http://www.ovrlnd.com/Apologetics/Determinism.html)

Discussion from a Christian perspective (Protestant Apologetics and Theology Page)
Is Belief in a Personal God Compatible with the Belief in Free-will?
(http://www.meshnest.com/journey/exist/pgodbelief.html)

Discussion by Mitch Hodge (Meshnest)
Free Will Contradicts the Idea of an Omniscient God
(http://www.abarnett.demon.co.uk/atheism/freewill.html)

Discussion by Adrian Barnett
John Calvin: On Predestination
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/calvin-predest.html)

Selection from Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion (The Modern History Sourcebook, Fordham University)

Fatalism



Fatalism
(http://www.xrefer.com/entry.jsp?xrefid=552034&secid=.-&hh=1)

Oxford Companion to Philosophy article
Fatalism
(http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05791a.htm)

Catholic Encyclopedia article
On the 'Standard' Argument for Fatalism
(http://www.soci.niu.edu/~phildept/Buller/fatal.html)

Article by Davud J. Buller from Philosophical Papers 24 (1995)
Fatalism
(http://www.princeton.edu/~jimpryor/courses/intro/notes/fatalism.html)

Lecture notes by James Pryor (Princeton University).
Fatalism
(http://www.philosophypages.com/dy/f.htm#fatm)

Definition and suggested links by Garth Kemerling

Legal Excuses



Emerging Defenses to Crime
(http://faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/excuse.htm)

List of legal justifications, excuses, mitigations
Sleepwalking - Nightmare for the courts
(http://www.colorado.edu/iec/SP200RW/sleep.htm)

Sleepwalking as a legal defense
Forensic Psychiatry and Medicine
(http://www.forensic-psych.com/articles/artRebirth.html)

Forensic Psychiatry and legal defenses
The Twinkie Defense
(http://www.ohnonews.com/twinkie.html)

Synopsis of the famous Twinkie defense used as an excuse for murder from Oh No! News
Diminished capacity as opposed to not guilty by reason of insanity
(http://www.law.cornell.edu/background/insane/capacity.html)

Explanation of the difference between a diminished capacity defense and an insanity plea








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