This volume showcases cutting-edge scholarship from The Big Questions in Free Will project, funded by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation and directed by Alfred R. Mele. It explores the subject of free will from the perspectives of neuroscience; social, cognitive, and developmental psychology; and philosophy (both traditional and experimental).The volume consists of fourteen new articles and an introduction from top-ranked contributors, all of whom bring fresh perspectives to the question of free will. They investigate questions such as: How do children conceive of free will and how does their concept of free will develop? How does lowered or raised confidence in the existence of free will affect our behavior? What modifies our power to resist temptation? What do lay folk mean by free will? What brain processes underlie decisions? How does the conscious experience of voluntary action contribute to the neural control of behavior? What are the neural differences between deliberate choosing and arbitrary picking? How do neuroscientific studies of decision making in monkeys bear on human free will? Is determinism compatible with free will? What can a proper understanding of causation tell us about free will? What is moral responsibility?Readers interested in the current and future direction of scholarship on free will find this volume essential reading.

1. IntroductionAlfred Mele2. The Origins and Development of Our Conception of Free WillAlison Gopnik and Tamar Kushnir3. Free Will without MetaphysicsAndrew E. Monroe and Bertram F. Malle4. Free Will: Belief and RealityRoy Baumeister, Cory Clark, and Jamie Luguri5. Measuring and Manipulating Beliefs and Behaviors Associated with Free Will: The Good, the Bad, and the UglyJonathan Schooler, Thomas Nadelhoffer, Eddy Nahmias, and Kathleen Vohs6. Incompatibilism and Bypassed AgencyGunnar Björnsson7. Naturalizing Free Will: Paths and PitfallsHakwan Lau and Myrto Mylopoulos8. "Free will": Components and ProcessesPatrick Haggard9. Change of Intention in "Picking" SituationsAriel Furstenberg, Leon Y. Deouell, and Haim Sompolinsky10. On Reporting the Onset of the Intention to MoveUri Maoz, Liad Mudrik, Ram Rivlin, Ian Ross, Adam Mamelak, and Gideon Yaffe11. Dissecting Readiness Potential: an Investigation of the Relationship Between Readiness Potentials, Conscious willing, and ActionPrescott Alexander, Alexander Schlegel, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Adina Roskies, Peter Ulric Tse, and Thalia Wheatley12. Monkey Decision-Making as a Model System for Human Decision-MakingAdina Roskies13. The Problem of Determinism and Free Will Is Not the Problem of Determinism and Free WillCarolina Sartorio14. On Being Some-OneJ. T. Ismael15. Negligent Action and Unwitting OmissionRandolph ClarkeAppendix: Free Will LexiconPatrick Haggard, Alfred Mele, Timothy O'Connor, and Kathleen VohsContributorsIndex