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Pereboom on free will

Brian Leiter

MOVING TO FRONT FROM FEBRUARY 9–SEVERAL OTHER LINKS TO CURRENTLY FREE BOOKS IN THE COMMENTS

The new book by Derk Pereboom (Cornell) on free will in the Cambridge Elements series is free online for the next two weeks!   I've read a bit of it now, and have read Pereboom's other work:  if you want to get a sense of the contemporary debate, this is a great opportunity!  If there are other worthy titles in that series currently available for free, please note them in the comments.  You don't need to format the hyperlink, just cut-and-paste the URL.

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11 responses to “Pereboom on free will”

  1. John Fischer

    This is quite simply an excellent book, as one would have expected from Derk Pereboom, one of the leading contributors to the very lively contemporary debates about issues pertaining to free will and moral responsibility. It is comprehensive, accurate, and fair. Anyone interested in learning about these debates, or even experts seeking to learn more about them (and the relevant literature), will find this an invaluable resource.

    Kudos to Derk and to CUP!

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  2. Vitor

    The Phil. of Neuroscience volume is also available for free.
    https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/philosophy-of-neuroscience/8EB23CCDB2E9D414EDA36CB8A5B8F62A?fbclid=IwAR375GdtF0IbCmZLscn9kdEr9_OjI6SJV_9Cw_TATEolf7rBYr9VbYJhMXs

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  3. Richard Y Chappell

    The "preprint" version of the Element on *Parfit's Ethics* is available for free on PhilPapers: https://philpapers.org/archive/CHAPE-5.pdf

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  4. Robert Allen

    Dear Professor Leiter,

    To 2nd Professor Fischer, I learned a lot from Professor Pereboom's Living Without Free Will. Great read, too. And he has to be in the running for the greatest philosophy article title of all-time: 'Determinism Al Dente'. (Right up there with Janet Levin's 'Could Love Be Like A Heat Wave?'.)

    Coincidentally, my daughter came home from Ann Arbor last night to celebrate my birthday: 'We're now studying free will in my philosophy course, dad. … And tomorrow we're starting Derk Pereboom.' 'Oh I know him! He's a Hard Determinist who still believes in Love … Lots of fun at conferences, too.'

    Thus, I can't wait to read (what I presume is) the sequel to the aforementioned essay. (Remember, a lot of critics insist that Godfather 2 tops GF1.) Thank you SO much, Professor Leiter for making it available. Ditto the generous author and publisher thereof.

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  5. Jake McNulty

    I thought Martin Kusch's volume Relativism in the Philosophy of Science was just fascinating, and did a good job sticking up for a much-maligned (and commonly straw-manned) position. Good discussion of the recent Anglophone literature too (Boghossian, Bloor/SSK, Kuhn, Van Fraasen, Rorty etc.)

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  6. Vitor

    The volume on Bayesianism and Scientific Reasoning is available for free download.
    https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/bayesianism-and-scientific-reasoning/077B5E32819BA16CFC896176D0051307?fbclid=IwAR3YId2c1TqfF3i6zD1rUJnqsOKXLN2odv3Gg6_4k_b4L5QopnrTeOdbpAY

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  7. Yujin Nagasawa

    Andrei A. Buckareff's new Element "Pantheism" is freely available to access online for the next two weeks. https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/pantheism/F54DFBF279BBED6210634C7759310700

    Rebekah Rice's "Death and Persistence" and Scott Davison's "God and Prayer" will also be published soon. https://www.cambridge.org/core/series/elements-in-the-philosophy-of-religion/6DB49122CD407CF5E4CB65DE7BCC052E?aggs%5BproductTypes%5D%5Bfilters%5D=ELEMENT&pageNum=1&showJackets=true&searchWithinIds=6DB49122CD407CF5E4CB65DE7BCC052E

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  8. Sergio Tenenbaum

    Chrisoula Andreou's excellent "Commitment and Resoluteness in Rational Choice" in Elements series is available for free download until Feb 18 here:

    https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/commitment-and-resoluteness-in-rational-choice/6F4A2D384C1A3502EED00A83D6A4FB75

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  9. Phil

    Perhaps not to our host's taste, but I can recommend Carsten Heidemann's "Hans Kelsen's Normativism" in the same series:

    https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/hans-kelsens-normativism/93EC79E28E1BCC2412D8C7F4FC08A296

    (Rumours of Kelsen's trouncing by Hart have been greatly exaggerated IMO.)

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  10. Brian Leiter

    I'm not familiar with the book, but will look at it! I'm not sure anyone thinks Hart "trounced" Kelsen; as John Gardner once put it, on certain issues it was a "draw." Unless one is a neo-Kantian, however, the rule of recognition understood as a social rule is more theoretically satisfying than the Grundnorm.

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  11. Kirk

    The following two Eelments are excellent:

    "God, Soul and the Meaning of Life" by Thaddeus Metz: https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/abs/god-soul-and-the-meaning-of-life/D619E816DDD06E697237760DC56E6217

    "The Axiology of Theism" by Klaas Kraay: https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/abs/axiology-of-theism/0FC6B51A422A09F25C2AB199F7CCC780

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