Free Will

Kevin Timpe is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Northwest Nazarene University, USA, and Templeton Research Fellow at St. Peter's College, University of Oxford, UK. He is the author of Free Will: Sourcehood and Its Alternatives (Continuum, 2008) and editor of Metaphysics and God (Routledge, 2009) and Arguing about Religion (Routledge, 2009). His recent publications have appeared in Philosophical Studies, American Philosophical Quarterly, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Faith and Philosophy, Religious Studies, and Philosophia. He is Philosophy of Religion Area Editor for the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

• Part I: Basic Issues and Positions; 1. Introduction; 2. The Compatibility Question; 3. Revisionist Views*; 4. Skeptical Views*; Part II: Alternative Possibilities; 5. The Debate Over the Ability to Do Otherwise; 6. A Revival of Classical Compatibilism*; 7. The Dilemma Defence; 8. Flickers of Freedom; Part III: Sourcehood; 9. Sourcehood and Compatibilism; 10. Sourcehood and Incompatibilism; 11. Sourcehood and Alternative Possibilities; Part IV: Looking Ahead; 12. Conclusions and Non-Conclusions*; Further Reading; Index. *New chapters

'Timpe's Free Will: Sourcehood and Its Alternatives, is a very fine book that is highly recommended for anyone interested in the contemporary debates about free will and moral responsibility. Timpe is remarkably well-versed in the literature, and the book makes many intriguing and illuminating contributions.'  Professor John Fischer, University of California Riverside, USA