Libertarian Dilemma

According to incompatibilism, determinism precludes§free will. Libertarians are incompatibilists who also§believe in free will. Hence, they re committed to§free will s requiring the falsity of§determinism indeterminism. The trouble is that the§very indeterminism which the libertarians need seem§inimical to free will in that it is hard to see how§indeterministic events can be under the agent s§control. This, in short, is the so-called Libertarian§Dilemma: free will seems incompatible with§determinism, but it also seems incompatible with§indeterminism so, free will seems impossible. This§book offers an in-depth analysis of this problem and§some of the major contemporary attempts by§libertarians to forge a successful way out of it.§In doing so, some central issues in the metaphysics§of free will are analyzed in detail, e.g., the logic§of contemporary arguments for each of the horns of§the dilemma; the problem of locating the§libertarians requisite indeterminism; the nature of agent causation and its prospects for solving the§dilemma. This book will be of interest to§philosophers or students of philosophy who have an§interest in the metaphysics of free will.