Revisionist Accounts of Free Will: Origins, Varieties, and Challenges

In Robert Kane (ed.), Oxford Handbook on Free Will, 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press (2011)
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The present chapter is concerned with revisionism about free will. It begins by offering a new characterization of revisionist accounts and the way such accounts fit (or do not) in the familiar framework of compatibilism and incompatibilism. It then traces some of the recent history of the development of revisionist accounts, and concludes by remarking on some challenges for them.

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