OXFORD READINGS IN PHILOSOPHY

The aim of this series is to bring together important recent writings in major areas of philosophical inquiry, selected from a variety of sources, mostly periodicals, which may not be conveniently available to the university student or the general reader. The editor of each volume contributes an introductory essay on the items chosen and on the questions with which they deal. A selective bibliography is appended as a guide to further reading.

The belief in free will presumes for human beings a special and puzzling status in the natural world, one that is central to our moral outlook. The essays in this volume illuminate a number of issues, moral and metaphysical, into which the general problem fragments