Assigned Readings

Week 1

Nagel - Moral Luck

Week 2

Sider & Conee - Fatalism

Taylor - Fate

Augustine - On Free Choice of the Will

Kane - Predestination, Divine Foreknowledge, and Free Will

Plantinga - God, Freedom, and Evil (excerpt)

Week 3

Holbach - The Illusion of Free Will

Libet - Do We Have Free Will?

Mele - Does Free Will Exist?

Mele - Free Will: Action Theory Meets Neuroscience (optional)

Roskies - Free Will Interview (you may stop at 9:34)

Strawson - Your Move: The Maze of Free Will

Strawson - The Impossibility of Moral Responsibility (optional)

Week 4

Frankfurt - Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility

Frankfurt - Free Will & the Concept of a Person

Ekstrom - Protecting Incompatibilist Freedom

Beebee - Pereboom's Four Case Argument

Week 5

Van Inwagen - Freedom of the Will

Kane - Responsibility, Luck, and Chance (read sections I - IV ; the rest is optional)

Mele & Shepherd - Situationism and Agency

Week 6

Wolf - Sanity and the Metaphysics of Responsibility

Shariff & Vohs - The World Without Free Will

Pereboom - Why We Have No Free Will And Can Live Without It

Week 7

Sartre - Man is Condemned to be Free

Week 8

Wolff - The Conflict Between Authority and Autonomy

Nozick - The Tale of the Slave

Dupre - Leviathan

Dupre - Prisoner's Dilemma

Hobbes - Leviathan

Locke - Second Treatise

Hume - On the Social Contract

Huemer - The Social Contract Account

Week 9

Brennan - The Right to a Competent Electorate

Mill - On Liberty

Week 10

Dworkin - Paternalism

Dupre - The Difference Principle

Rawls - Justice as Fairness

Week 11

Nozick - Distributive Justice

Week 12

Young - Five Faces of Oppression

Berlin, Washington, Goldman, Cohen, Hayek, & Rawls on Liberty

Week 13

LaFollette - Licensing Parents

Week 14

Huemer - America's Unjust Drug War

Scwartz - The Paradox of Choice (excerpts)

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