Persons and causes the metaphysics of free will

""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Freedom and Determinism""; ""1.1 An Ancient Argument""; ""1.2 Some Modal Principles and the Argument for Incompatibilism""; ""1.3 The Fixity of the Past and of Natural Laws""; ""1.4 Freedom and Responsibility""; ""2. Freedom and Indeterminism: Some Unsatisfactory Proposals""; ""2.1 The Trouble with Incompatibilism""; ""2.2 Simple Indeterminism: Carl Ginet on Choice and Control""; ""2.3 Causal Indeterminism: The General Strategy and a Problem Posed""; ""3. The Agent as Cause: Reid, Taylor, and Chisholm""; ""3.1 The Agency Theory""; ""3.2 Thomas Reid"" ""3.3 Richard Taylor""""3.4 Roderick Chisholm""; ""3.5 Summary""; ""Appendix: Chisholm's Later Writings on Agency""; ""4. The Metaphysics of Free Will""; ""4.1 Overview""; ""4.2 Event Causation""; ""4.3 Agent Causation""; ""4.4 C. D. Broad's Objection to the Very Idea of Agent Causation""; ""4.5 Remarks on a Contemporary Alternative Account of Agent Causation""; ""4.6 Ersatz Agent Causation?""; ""4.7 Alternative Possibilities, Responsibility, and Agent Causation""; ""5. Reasons and Causes""; ""5.1 Reasons Explanation and the Agency Theory""; ""5.2 Objections to the Account"" ""5.3 Reasons and Contrastive Explanation""""5.4 Reasons and Tendencies to Act: A Residual Problem and a Speculative Proposal""; ""5.5 When Is the Will Free?""; ""5.6 Conclusion""; ""6. Agency, Mind, and Reductionism""; ""6.1 Introductory Polemics: 'The Emerging Scientific Picture of the World'""; ""6.2 Emergence""; ""6.3 Emergence and Consciousness""; ""6.4 The Emergence of Active Power""; ""6.5 An Epistemological Objection to Agent Causation""; ""6.6 Conclusion""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N"" ""P""""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Z""