Books Refuting
Free Will and Fundamental Moral
Responsibility
I’ve formatted the list
in reverse chronological order by
first publishing date to highlight
the historical development of the
refutations. While the list
generally includes only books that
unequivocally refute both free will
and fundamental moral
responsibility, I’ve included recent
works like Michael S. Gazzaniga’s
Who’s in Charge?: Free Will and the
Science of the Brain and Richard
Oerton’s The Nonsense of Free
Will: Facing Up to a False Belief
that put forth convincing
arguments for why free will is an
illusion, yet maintain the logically
inconsistent position that humans
are nonetheless fundamentally, as
distinct from pragmatically, morally
responsible for their actions.
Excluded are works like Ted
Honderich’s How Free Are You:
The Determinism Problem that
present compelling arguments and
evidence against free will, but
equivocate on definitively
concluding that free will is a
categorical impossibility.
1. June 1, 2013 -
Exploring the Illusion of Free
Will and Moral Responsibility
edited by Gregg Caruso,
Ph.D.. Note that while this
collection of original essays is by
scholars who deny, or merely express
doubt, that free will exists, and
some may maintain the position that
humans are fundamentally, as
distinct from pragmatically, morally
responsible, it is included in the
list because of its importance as a
first-ever and historic academic
compilation of free will
refutations. List of authors: Susan
Blackmore, Gregg Caruso, Thomas W.
Clark, Mark Hallett, John-Dylan
Haynes and Michael Pauen, Ted
Honderich, Neil Levy, Thomas
Nadelhoffer and Daniela Goya
Tocchetto, Shaun Nichols, Derk
Pereboom, Susan Pockett, Maureen Sie,
Saul Smilansky, Galen Strawson,
Manuel Vargas, Benjamin Vilhauer,
and Bruce Waller $80.75
2. October 1, 2012 -
The Nonsense of Free Will: Facing
up to a false belief
by Richard Oerton $13.29
3. August 10, 2012 -
Brain Choices & Free Will:
Getting To Know Ourselves Using
Concepts That Are Not Well
Understood Or Accepted
by Kip Koehler $5.69
4. May 10, 2012 (Third
Edition issued on January 17, 2013)
-
Free Will: The Ultimate in
Nonsense by Enel
Vale $17.99
5. March 6, 2012 -
Free Will by Sam Harris,
Ph.D. $9.99
6. February 23, 2012 -
Free Will and Consciousness; A
Determinist Account of the Illusion
of Free Will by Gregg
Caruso, Ph.D. $56.47
7. December 2, 2011 (Kindle
Second Edition issued on June 20,
2013) - Exploring the Illusion of
Free Will, Second Edition
by George Ortega $.99
8. November 15, 2011
(Reissued on September 11, 2012) -
Who's in Charge?: Free Will and
the Science of the Brain
by Michael S. Gazzaniga $18.65
9. September 5, 2011 -
Hard Luck: How Luck Undermines
Free Will and Moral Responsibility
by Neil Levy, Ph.D. $47.51
10. November 3, 2010 -
Free Will?: An Investigation into
whether We Have Free Will, or
whether I was Always Going to Write
this Book by Jonathan
M.S. Pearce $15.00
11. 2007 (Revised Edition
issued on August 11, 2010) -
The Myth of Free Will, Revised
and Expanded Edition
edited by Cris Evatt $9.95
12. June 1, 2005 -
Conscious Robots by Paul
Kwatz $1.51 for the Kindle edition
(bound edition is out of print)
13. August 11, 2003 -
The Illusion of Conscious Will
by Daniel M. Wegner, Ph.D. $16.84
14. September 26, 2002 -
Free Will and Illusion by
Saul Smilansky, Ph.D. $46.67
15. 2001 (Reissued on
November 2, 2006) -
Living Without Free Will
by Derk Pereboom, Ph.D. $48.82
16. May 23, 1991 -
The Implications of Determinism
by Roy Weatherford (out
of print)
17. November 22, 1990 -
The Non-Reality of Free Will
by Richard Double $104.50
18. July 1989 (Reissued
October 22, 2012) -
The Spontaneous Self: Viable
Alternatives to Free Will
by Paul E. Breer $26.99
19. June 1989 -
Free Will by Robert E.
Brooks (out of print)
20. 1986 (Second edition
issued on October 21, 2010) -
Freedom and Belief, Second
Edition by Galen Strawson,
Ph.D. $30.61
21. 1964 -
Human Freedom and Responsibility
by Frederick Vivian (out of print)
22. 1919 (Reissued on May
15, 2011) -
Determinism or Free Will
by Chapman Cohen $36.86 (the
Kindle edition is free)
23. 1839 -
Essay on the Freedom of the Will
(Reissued on May 6, 2005) by
Arthur Schopenhauer $6.60
24. 1754 (Reissued on
November 10, 2010) -
Freedom of the Will by
Jonathan Edwards $.95 for the
Kindle edition. (The bound edition,
published on September 1, 1997 is
out of print)
free online version
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