Includes bibliographical references (pages 577-617) and index.
"This reference provides a guide to current scholarship on the perennial problem of free will - perhaps the most hotly and voluminously debated of all philosophical problems. While reference is made throughout to the contributions of major thinkers of the past, the emphasis is on recent research. The essays, all previously unpublished, combine the work of established scholars with younger thinkers who are beginning to make significant contributions. Taken as a whole, the Handbook provides a roadmap to the state of the art thinking on this topic."--BOOK JACKET.