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Bernard Berofsky argues that there is room in a deterministic world for a conception of free will as self-determination including the power of genuine choice. He grounds this compatibilist position in a new version of the regularity theory of laws, derived from David Hume's denial of necessary connections in nature.
1. Introduction -- 2. Concepts of free will -- 3. Autonomy and self-determination -- 4. Source incompatibilism -- 5. Conditionalist compatibilism -- 6. Causal compatibilism -- 7. The consequence argument and determinism -- 8. The unalterability of laws and the reductionist strategy -- 9. Supervenience, autonomy, and physicalism -- 10. The regularity theory I: humean supervenience -- The regularity theory II: laws and accidental generalizations -- 12. Free will in a deterministic world.
Includes bibliographical references and index.