TNS - Papers on Free Will

On this page, I had hoped for an essay by Bob Kopp, former Vidya editor, but there's a lot going on just now and he's too busy to write much. In the hope that he will write on this topic eventually, or that someone in TNS will, I include the following list of links to get you started:

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• Greenspan, Patricia S. "Genes, Electrotransmitters, and Free Will" (University of Maryland). [Essay]

• Huemer, Michael. "The Objectivist Theory of Free Will" (Rutgers University). [Essay]

• Greenspan, Patricia S. "Correcting Sentimentalist Free Will: Thoughts on Hume on Liberty and Blame" (University of Maryland). [Essay]

• Koons, Robert C. "The Free Will Defense" (University of Texas, Austin). [Lecture]

• Swartz, Norman. "Lecture Notes on Free Will and Determinism: Part 1" (Simon Fraser University). [Lecture]

• Swartz, Norman. "Lecture Notes on Free Will and Determinism: Part 2" (Simon Fraser University). [Lecture]

• Swartz, Norman. "Lecture Notes on Free Will and Determinism: Part 3" (Simon Fraser University). [Lecture]

• Swartz, Norman. "Lecture Notes on Free Will and Determinism: Part 4" (Simon Fraser University). [Lecture]

• Greenspan, Patricia S. "Free Will and Genetic Determinism: Locating the Problem(s)" (University of Maryland). [Essay]

• Kilcullen, R. J. "Scotus and Ockham on Free Will" (Macquarie University). [Lecture]

• Koons, Robert C. "Mackie's Critique of the Free Will Defense, and the Question of Divine Responsibility" (University of Texas, Austin). [Lecture]

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• A page of links to online papers on the Question of Free Will: Some of these links are pretty cool, others I have intentionally *grin* left off of this page.
  
  
• Joel Katz's essay Joel Katz has an Objectivism site on the web. This is a link to his "free will" essay.
  
  
• Walter Requadt's "textbook-style" essay
  
  
• On Plantinga's Free Will defense: Prof. Scott Moore, at Baylor
  
  
• Extensive Review of "The Nature of Free Will" (David Kelley's book) by Roy A. Childs, Jr., as part of the sales section of the "Laissez-Faire Books" website.
  
  
• Despite some quirky typesetting, I really like the short essay by Antony Meyer Jones
  
  
• Eve Andersson's Collection of answers to the question "How can free will be explained in terms of physics?" -- part of her incredibly entertaining site in praise of the transfinite, especially of Pi. If Eve isn't a TNS member, she'd be welcomed here (IMHO), if she could ever find the time!
  

More later, there are a LOT of web hits to check!

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