• Introduction


• 1: Freedom and Determinism


• 2: Freedom and Indeterminism: Some Unsatisfactory Proposals


• 3: The Agent as Cause: Reid, Taylor, and Chisholm


• 4: The Metaphysics of Free Will


• 5: Reasons and Causes


• 6: Agency, Mind, and Reductionism


• Bibliography


• Index

This provocative book refurbishes the traditional account of freedom of will as reasons-guided "agent" causation, situating its account within a general metaphysics. O'Connor's discussion of the general concept of causation and of ontological reductionism v. emergence will specially interest metaphysicians and philosophers of mind.