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Throughout the history of Buddhism, little has been said prior to the Twentieth Century that explicitly raises the question whether we have free will, though the Buddha rejected fatalism and some Buddhists have addressed whether karma is fatalistic. Recently, however, Buddhist and Western philosophers have begun to explicitly discuss Buddhism and free will.

This book incorporates Buddhist philosophy more explicitly into the Western analytic philosophical discussion of free will, both in order to render more perspicuous Buddhist ideas that might shed light on the Western philosophical debate, and in order to render more perspicuous the many possible positions on the free will debate that are available to Buddhist philosophy. The book covers:

• Buddhist and Western perspectives on the problem of free will
• The puzzle of whether free will is possible if, as Buddhists believe, there is no agent/self
• Therav?da views
• Mah?y?na views
• Evidential considerations from science, meditation, and skepticism

The first book to bring together classical and contemporary perspectives on free will in Buddhist thought, it is of interest to academics working on Buddhist and Western ethics, comparative philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, agency, and personal identity.

This book incorporates Buddhist philosophy more explicitly into the Western analytic philosophical discussion of free will, both in order to render more perspicuous Buddhist ideas that might shed light on the Western philosophical debate, and to render more perspicuous the many possible positions on the free will debate that are available to Buddhist philosophy. This book is of interest to academics working on Buddhist and Western ethics, comparative philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, agency, and personal identity.

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Introduction: hermeneutical koan - what is the sound of one Buddhist theory of free will? -- Why the Buddha did not discuss "the problem of free will and determinism" / Christopher W. Gowans -- Why there should be a Buddhist theory of free wil / Rick Repetti -- Use of the illusion of agency: why some Buddhists should believe in free will / Charles Goodman -- Just another word for "nothing left to lose": freedom, agency, and ethics for Mādhyamikas / Jay Garfield -- Negative dialectics in comparative philosophy: the case of Buddhist free will quietism / Owen Flanagan -- Free will and the sense of self / Galen Strawson -- What am I doing? / Susan Blackmore -- Freedom from responsibility: agent-neutral consequentialism and the bodhisattva ideal / Christian Coseru -- Free will, liberation, and Buddhist philosophy / Marie Friquegnon -- Buddhism and free will: beyond the "free will problem" / B. Alan Wallace -- Degrees of freedom: the Buddha''s implied views on the (im)possibility of free will / Martin T. Adam -- Buddhist paleocompatibilism / Mark Siderits -- Shifting coalitions, free will, and the responsibility of persons / Ben Abelson -- Psychological versus metaphysical agents: a Theravāda BUddhist view of free will and moral responsibility / Peter Harvey -- Emotions and choice: lessons from Tsongkhapa / Emily McRae -- Grasping snakes: reflections on free will, samādhi, and dharmas / Karin Myers -- Agentless agency: the soft compatibilist argument from Buddhist meditation, mind-mastery, evitabilism, and mental freedom / Rick Repetti.