Free Will Skepticism and Obligation Skepticism: Comments on Derk Pereboom's Free Will Agency, and Meaning in Life

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Free Will Skepticism and Obligation Skepticism: Comments on Derk Pereboom’s Free Will Agency, and Meaning in Life Dana Kay Nelkin Email: dnelkin@ucsd.edu I. Introduction Derk Pereboom’s Living Without Free Will (2001) is an outstanding book that rightly changed the debate over an ancient problem. I am certain that Free Will Skepticism, Agency, and Meaning in Life will join the first book as a must-read for anyone in the world interested in these foundational issues. The main pillars of the account remain, including incompatibilism between free will and determinism, skepticism about free will on a combination of conceptual and empirical grounds, and the thesis that life on the assumption that we do not have free will can be meaningful and perhaps even better in certain important respects than life on the assumption that we have it. At the same time, there are some subtle shifts in particular commitments, new ways of framing certain issues, and detailed responses to a good number of the

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Free Will Skepticism and Obligation Skepticism: Comments on Derk Pereboom's Free Will Agency, and Meaning in Life

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