Reading:

Dialogue 6 (April 1996)  has a very useful overview by Rob Cook entitled Determinism and Free Will (back copies are available from the publisher).

Self-test:

Test yourself on the understanding of key terms in the free will/determinism debate (goes with the Lander site below), go to:

http://philosophy.lander.edu/intro/determinism_quiz.html

An overview:

Tutor2u has an excellent overview of the key authors and arguments (useful for revision):

http://tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/religious-studies/comments/free-will-and-determinism/

Introductory weblinks:

For an excellent summary of the key terms in the free will, determinism debate, go to:

http://philosophy.lander.edu/intro/determinism.html

For the full menu from the University of Lancaster including discussion of film clips from Back to the Future, War Games and Hamlet, go to:

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/philosophy/courses/100/100block1synopsis.htm

Here is the clearest introduction to the three possible positions on determinism – if you can’t get your mind round the differences:

http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/FREE.HTM

On Hume’s compatibilism

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hume-freewill/

On Kant’s compatibilism

http://www.arts.cornell.edu/phil/homepages/pereboom/KTFprfin2.pdf

On van Inwagen’s libertarianism

http://www.informationphilosopher.com/solutions/philosophers/vaninwagen/

http://www.andrewmbailey.com/jmf/van_Inwagen_on_Free_Will.pdf

More advanced links on specific issues:

An exploration of the scientific worldview and causation, go to:

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/philosophy/courses/100/100determinism1.htm

The concept of autonomy, its origins and meaning, go to:

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/philosophy/courses/100/100determinism2.htm

Arguments for and against compatibilism, go to:

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/philosophy/courses/100/100determinism3.htm

Causation: Hume and Kant contrasted, go to:

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/philosophy/courses/100/100determinism4.htm

For a more advanced essay surveying recent thinking on the free will debate, go to:

http://www.pgrim.org/articles/freewillpdfversion.pdf