Theories

Hard Determinism
Laws of Nature (http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/l/lawofnat.htm) Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy article



Determinism (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04756c.htm) Catholic Encyclopedia article



Determinism (http://www.counterbalance.org/gengloss/determ-body.html) Summary by CTNS (Counterbalance Foundation)



Freewill I: Hard Determinism (http://www.mit.edu/~shaslang/2400-01/fw1-01.html) Lecturenotes by Sally Haslanger (MIT)



The Society of Natural Science (http://www.determinism.com/) Home Page of society devoted to fully deterministic view of human nature



The Free Will Fiction (http://www.theunityofknowledge.org/the_free_will_fiction/title_page.htm) Online article by Derrick Farnell



Determinism (http://www.philosophypages.com/dy/d5.htm#det) Definition and suggested links by Garth Kemerling

Indeterminism
The Dilemma of Determinism (http://csunx2.bsc.edu/~bmyers/WJ1.htm) Article by William James in defense of the decision to believe in free will



Is Quantum Indeterminism Relevant to Free Will? (http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/phil/org/dozenten/esfeld/skript/00/Phil.Nat.00pdf.pdf) Article by Michael Esfeld from Philosophica Naturalis 37 (2000)



Quantum Mechanics and Free Will: Counterarguments (http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/quant-ph/pdf/0208/0208104.pdf) Article by Martin Lopez-Corredoira



Indeterminism (http://www.update.uu.se/~fbendz/philo/indeterm.htm) Article byFrederick Benz



The Uncertainty Principle (http://ideaplace.org/Chemistry/ChemMisc/HawkingC4.html) Article by physicist Stephen Hawking on the indeterminacy implied by the uncertainty principle (Oxford University)

Traditional Compatibilism
Compatibilism (http://www.princeton.edu/~jimpryor/courses/intro/notes/compatibilism.html) Lecture notes by James Pryor (Princeton University).



Criticism of the Comaptibilist's Analysis of (http://www.princeton.edu/~jimpryor/courses/intro/notes/cd-hv-done-otherwise.html) Lecture notes by James Pryor (Princeton University).



Freewill II: Compatibilism (http://www.mit.edu/~shaslang/2400-01/fw2-01.html) Lecturenotes by Sally Haslanger (MIT)



Compatibilism, a sketch (http://personal.bgsu.edu/~roberth/compat2.html) Discussion by Robert Bass (Bowling Green State University)



Who's afraid of Determinism? (http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/kitdraft.htm) Article by Christopher Taylor and Daniel Dennett (Tufts University) against incompatibilism



Freedom and Determinism: A Naturalistic Approach (http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~davidt/Freedom.html) Article defending Dennett's compatibilism by David L. Thompson (Memorial University of Newfoundland)



The Nature of Freewill (http://www.optimal.org/peter/freewill.htm) Defense of compatibilist position by Peter Voss



Living Without Free Will (http://www.theunityofknowledge.org/living_without_free_will/title_page.htm) Article by Derrick Farnell arguing that rejecting free will doesn't mean rejecting moral responsibility



A Case for Free Will and Determinism (http://www.benbest.com/philo/freewill.html) Collection of discussions on compatibilism by Ben Best



David Hume: Our Freedom Reconciled with Determinism (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/dfwCompatHume.htm) Excerpt from Hume's Enquiry Concerning Human UnderstandingFrom Ted Honderich's Determinism and Freedom Website.



Prof. Ted Honderich (http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/) Home Page of Ted Honderich (University College London) Includes links to several of his thought-provoking online articles pushing the free will debate beyond the compatibilist/incompatibilist divide.



Compatibilism (http://www.philosophypages.com/dy/c5.htm#cptb) Definition and suggested links by Garth Kemerling

Hierarchical Compatibilism
Harry Frankfurt: Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/dfwCompatFrankfurt.htm) Harry Frankfurt presents his version of Hierarchical Compatibilism



Frankfurt, Failure, and Finding Fault (http://www.uwmanitowoc.uwc.edu/staff/awhite/al97.htm) Article by V. Alan White criticizing Frankfurt's Hierarchical Compatibilism



The Myth of Alternate Possibilities (http://www.stanford.edu/~pxwang/PAP.pdf) Article criticizing the principle of alternate possibilities (could have done otherwise) by Philip Wang (Stanford University)



Persons: Identification and Freedom (http://artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/autonomy/stump.html) Eleanor Stump's analysis of Frankfurt's notions of freedom and personhood



Freedom and Determinism (http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~curd/Free.htm) Martin Curd's analysis of freedom and determinism

Libertarianism
Libertarianism (http://www.xrefer.com/entry.jsp?xrefid=552618&secid=.-&hh=1) Oxford Companion to Philosophy article



Incompatibilist Theories of Free Will (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/incompatibilism-theories/) Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article



The Consequence Argument for Incompatibilism (http://www.princeton.edu/~jimpryor/courses/intro/notes/cd-hv-done-otherwise.html) Lecture notes by James Pryor (Princeton University).



Freewill III: Libertarianism (http://www.mit.edu/~shaslang/2400-01/fw3-01.html) Overview notes by Sally Haslanger (MIT)



A Proof of Free Will (http://home.sprynet.com/~owl1/fwill.htm) Defense of free will on the basis of the normativity of thought by Michael Huemer (University of Colorado)



The Mystery of Metaphysical Freedom (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/dfwvanInwagen1.htm) Article by Peter van Inwagen; from Honderich's Determinism and Freedom site



Will (http://www.philosophypages.com/dy/w9.htm#will) Definition and suggested links by Garth Kemerling



Freedom (http://www.philosophypages.com/dy/f9.htm#free) Definition and suggested links by Garth Kemerling

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Theories

Hard Determinism

Indeterminism

Traditional Compatibilism

Hierarchical Compatibilism

Libertarianism