The debate between free will and its opposing doctrine, determinism, is one of the key issues in philosophy. Free Will provides a comprehensive introduction to this highly important question.

Ilman Dilman is professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Wales, Swansea. He is the author of numerous works of epistemology, philosophical psychology, aesthetics and existentialism.

Introduction; Part 1 Early Greek Thinkers; Chapter 1 Homer and the Iliad; Chapter 2 Sophocles' Oedipus; Chapter 3 Plato and Moral Determinism; Chapter 4 Aristotle; Part 2 The Coming of Age of Christianity; Chapter 5 St Augustine; Chapter 6 St Thomas Aquinas; Part 3 The Rise of Science; Chapter 7 Descartes' Dualism; Chapter 8 Spinoza; Chapter 9 Hume and Kant; Part 4 The Age of Psychology; Chapter 10 Schopenhauer; Chapter 11 Freud; Chapter 12 Sartre; Chapter 13 Simone Weil; Chapter 14 G E Moore; Chapter 15 Wittgenstein; Chapter 16 Conclusion;