Free will/External Links

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Links to The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:

• O'Connor, Timothy (Oct 29, 2010). Edward N. Zalta, ed:Free Will. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2011 Edition). "A particular sort of capacity of rational agents to choose a course of action from among various alternatives. Which sort is the free will sort is what all the fuss is about."
• Hoefer, Carl (Oct 29, 2010). Edward N. Zalta, ed:Causal Determinism. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2011 Edition). "The claim that everything that happens is determined by antecedent conditions together with the natural laws."
• Vihvelin, Kadri (Mar 1, 2011). Edward N. Zalta, ed:Arguments for Incompatibilism. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2011 Edition). "The relevance of determinism to free will: if determinism turned out to be true, Incompatibilism holds it would also be true that we don't have, and have never had, free will." Quotation is approximate.
• McKenna, Michael (Oct 5, 2009). Edward N. Zalta, ed:Compatibilism. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2011 Edition). "Compatibilism is the thesis that free will is compatible with determinism."
• Clarke, Randolph (Sep 12, 2008). Edward N. Zalta, ed:Incompatibilist (Nondeterministic) Theories of Free Will. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2011 Edition). "The incompatibilist theories that have been offered fall into three main groups, depending on which type of indeterminism (uncaused events, nondeterministically caused events, agent- [or substance-] caused events) they require. Further variations among accounts concern where in the processes leading to decisions or other actions they require indeterminism and what other conditions besides indeterminism they require."

Other links

• Norman Bearrentine. New Millennium/New Mind: Life After the Death of Free Will. Light & Dark Inc. normbear.com. Retrieved on 2012-07-27. A thoughtful essay with a few references.
• Michael Shermer (July 26, 2012). How Free Will Collides with Unconscious Impulses: Volition as self-control exerts veto power over impulses. Scientific American. Retrieved on 2012-07-27. A claim that experiments by Marcel Brass and Patrick Haggard in 2007 demonstrate "free won't", supporting the idea humans control their decisions.