Introductory Books on Free Will and Moral Responsibility
Ekstrom, Laura Wadell (forthcoming). Free Will. Westview Press.
Henderich, Ted. 1993. How Free are You? Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Trusted, Jennifer. 1984. Free Will and Responsibility. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Anthologies on Free Will and Moral Responsibility
Berofsky, Bernard, ed., 1966. Free Will and Determinism. New York: Harper & Row.
Fischer, John Martin, and Mark Ravizza, eds. Perspectives on Moral Responsibility. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Fischer, John Martin, ed. 1986. Moral Responsibility. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Honderich, Ted, ed. 1973. Essays on Freedom of Action. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Hook, Sidney, 1958. Determinism and Freedom in the Age of Modern Science. New York: Collier.
Lehrer, Keith, ed. 1966. Determinism and Freedom. New York: Random House.
O’Connor, Timothy, ed., 1995. Agents, Causes, and Events. New York: Oxford University Press.
Pereboom, Derk, ed. 1997. Free Will. Indianapolis, Indiana: Hackett Publishing Company.
Watson, Gary. Ed., 1982. Free Will. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Monographs on Free Will and Moral Responsibility
Bok, Hilary. 1998. Freedom and Responsibility. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
Chisholm, Roderick. 1976. Person and Object. La Salle: Open Court.
Dennett, Daniel. 1984. Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Fischer, John Martin. 1994. The Metaphysics of Free Will: An Essay on Control. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers.
Fischer, John Martin and Mark Ravizza. 1998. Responsibility and Control: A Theory of Moral Responsibility. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Frankfurt, Harry. 1988. The Importance of What We Care About. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Haji, Ishtiyaque. 1998. Moral Appraisability. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Mele, Alfred. 1995. Autonomous Agents: From Self-Control to Autonomy. New York: Oxford University Press.
Pereboom, Derk. forthcoming. Living Without Free Will. Cambridge University Press.
Rowe, William. 1991. Thomas Reid on Freedom and Morality. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
Russell, Paul. Freedom and Moral Sentiment: Hume’s Way of Naturalizing Responsibility. New York: Oxford University Press.
Strawson, Galen. 1986. Freedom and Belief. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Taylor, Richard. 1966. Action and Purpose. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall.
van Inwagen, Peter. 1983. An Essay on Free Will. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Wallace, R. Jay. Responsibility and the Moral Sentiments. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Wolf, Susan. 1990. Freedom Within Reason. New York: Oxford University Press.
Zimmerman, Michael. 1988. An Essay on Moral Responsibility. Totowa, N.J.: Rowman & Littlefield.
Articles (a full citation will not be given where reference to anthologies mentioned above is possible.)
Ayer, A.J., "Freedom and Necessity," in Watson, 1982; and Pereboom, 1997.
Campbell, C.A., "Is Free Will and Psuedo-Problem?" in Berofsky, 1966.
Chisholm, Roderick, "Human Freedom and the Self," in Watson, 1982; and Pereboom, 1997.
Edwards, Paul, "Hard and Soft Determinism," in Hook, 1958.
Fischer, John Martin, "Responsiveness and Moral Responsibility," in Pereboom, 1997.
Frankfurt, Harry, "Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility," in Fischer, 1986; and Pereboom, 1997.
Frankfurt, Harry, "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person," in Watson, 1982; Fischer, 1986; and Pereboom, 1997.
Ginet, Carl, "Might We Have no Choice?" in Lehrer, 1966.
Hobart, R.E., "Free Will as Involving Determinism and Inconceivable Without It," in Berofsky, 1966.
Hospers, John, "What Means This Freedom?" in Hook, 1958.
Kane, Robert, "Two Kinds of Incompatibilism," in O’Connor, 1995.
Schlick, Moritz, "When is a Man Responsible?" in Berofsky, 1966.
Strawson, Sir Peter F., "Freedom and Resentment," in Watson, 1982; also in Fischer, 1986.
van Inwagen, Peter "The Incompatibility of Free Will and Determinism," in Fischer 1986; and Pereboom, 1997.
Wiggins, David, "Toward a Reasonable Libertarainism," in Honderich, 1973.
Wolf, Susan, "Asymmetrical Freedom," in Fischer 1986; and Pereboom, 1997.
Recent Articles of Prominent Interest (within the last five years) - a full citation will not be given where reference to anthologies mentioned above is possible.)
Fischer, John Martin. 1999. "Recent Work on Moral Responsibility." Ethics 110, pp. 93-139.
Widerker, David. 1995. "Libertarianism and Frankfurt’s Attack on the Principle of Alternative Possibilities." Philosophical Review 104, pp. 247-61.
Mele, Alfred, and David Robb. 1998. "Rescuing Frankfurt-Style Cases." Philosophical Review 107, pp. 97-112.
Michael McKenna is on the faculty of Ithaca College, and, during 1999-2000, is visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Bryn Mawr College. He recently organized a conference on "Free Will and Moral Responsibility", sponsored by the Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium. The full proceedings of the conference are due to appear as a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Ethics. McKenna has published various articles on the topics of free will and responsibility. Currently, he is working on an introductory textbook on free will and moral responsibility targeted to a novice audience. Suggestions for additions to the Brief Bibliography should be sent to mmckenna@brynmawr.edu.