I've been perusing the OUP catalogue, planning which freebees I to get for contributing to an Oxford project. Here are three forthcoming books that I know will be of interest to readers:
the 2nd edition of Kane's Handbook on Free Will (which has a number of new chapters)
Neil Levy's Hard Luck: How Luck Undermines Free Will and Moral Responsibility
Dana Nelkin's Making Sense of Freedom and Responsibility
There are also two recent books on free will which some of you may be interested in for your courses as well:
Joe Campell's Free Will (Polity)
Tim Mawson's Free Will: A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum)
If there are other books you think the rest of us should know about, please post them in comments.
The revised edition of Galen Strawson's 'Freedom and Belief':
http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Philosophy/Metaphysics/?view=usa&ci=9780199247509
Posted by: Rob | 01/17/2011 at 09:09 AM
Some more:
Michael Frede, A Free Will: Origins of the Notion in Ancient Thought (Sather Classical Lectures).
Steven Horst, Laws, Mind, and Free Will
Michael McKenna,Free Will: a contemporary introduction.
David Foster Wallace's undergraduate thesis "Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will" has also recently been published. Has anyone read it who would like to comment (if reading it is anything like reading the novels I will place it on my to do list somewhere below eating broken glass).
Posted by: Neil | 01/18/2011 at 06:31 AM
I've found reading the big novel rather like eating something quite tasty. And eating more of it; and eating more of it; and eating more of it....
Posted by: R. Clarke | 01/18/2011 at 10:55 AM
Okay, I'll engage in some shameless self-promotion. Two recent titles that should be of interest to folks who read this blog are the following two collections (both volumes contain contributions from contributors to this blog):
J.H. Aguilar and A.A. Buckareff, eds., Causing Human Actions: New Perspectives on the Causal Theory of Action (Bradford Books/MIT Press)
J.H. Aguilar, A.A. Buckareff, and K. Frankish, eds., New Waves in Philosophy of Action (Palgrave-Macmillan)
Posted by: Andrei A. Buckareff | 01/18/2011 at 03:14 PM
Randy: yes, exactly. I don't know about you, but at some point (quite soon) I can't face another mouthful of what seemed quite nice when I raised my spoon. With Infinite jest, the first word in the title seemed not to be hyperbole.
Posted by: Neil | 01/19/2011 at 02:27 AM
Here is a link to McKenna's forthcoming book, as well as another book by Routledge on the conditional analysis.
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415996877/
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415879477/
Posted by: Kevin Timpe | 01/19/2011 at 06:38 AM
I'm reading the Wallace collection presently (supposed to be reviewing it for NDPR). It has been great so far... and I confess to being a little bit surprised by this. As for Infinite Jest, I'm in agreement with both Neil and Randy: great fun, but still so far to go! I may presently be embedded in a footnote to a footnote to a footnote; but I can't really tell.
Posted by: Dan Speak | 01/19/2011 at 03:30 PM
Good news, Dan! I can avoid the Wallace and just read your review.
Posted by: Neil | 01/20/2011 at 08:24 AM
An interesting article on philosophy and literature that discusses Wallace a bit here: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/23/books/review/Ryerson-t.html?scp=1&sq=%22free%20will%22&st=cse
Posted by: Eddy Nahmias | 01/25/2011 at 08:28 AM
Action, Ethics, & Responsibility (MIT Press), from the 2nd INPC conference on free will, is FINALLY out.
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12279
Unfortunately, I've yet to find anyone who is willing to publish MY undergraduate thesis.
Posted by: Joe Campbell | 01/26/2011 at 07:45 PM
The Philosophy of Free Will: Selected Contemporary Readings, Edited by Paul Russell and Oisin Deery (New York: Oxford University Press) should be out later this year.
Posted by: Oisin Deery | 01/30/2011 at 08:52 PM
The Philosophy of Free Will: Selected Contemporary Readings, Edited by Paul Russell and Oisin Deery (New York: Oxford University Press), should be out later this year.
Posted by: Oisin Deery | 01/31/2011 at 02:16 PM