ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book focuses on three developments, all of which occurred in the 1960s, that resulted in major changes to the way the free will problem is approached. First, it concerns the Consequence Argument for incompatibilism, which is designed to show that the freedom to do otherwise is incompatible with determinism. The second major development features Harry Frankfurt's argument for the thesis that the freedom to do otherwise is not the sort of freedom that is required for persons to be morally responsible for what they do. It is, rather, a different sort of freedom, one that concerns the source of a person's agency. The third development, concerns P. F. Strawson's efforts to reconfigure the free will problem by reference to our moral emotions and how our inter-personal lives reveal their own understanding of human freedom and the conditions for moral responsibility.
