PRAISE FOR THE FREE WILL DELUSION

“The Free Will Delusion is a remarkable book that covers an enormous range of positions, ideas, and writers on free will and moral responsibility, which is already impressive. But to take this often esoteric material and form it into a book that is powerful, provocative, clear, accessible, and a joy to read: that is a singular achievement”

– Bruce Waller, philosopher, and author of Freedom Without Responsibility and Against Moral Responsibility

“a terrific book. … bold and provocative, yet rigorously argued. ... Miles maintains a hard incompatibilist and anti-utilitarian position against the most prominent defenders of a belief in free will strong enough to support moral responsibility, including Kane, Searle, Dennett, Watson, Fischer, Frankfurt, P. F. Strawson, and the free will illusionist Saul Smilansky. Miles uses the premise of the unfairness of holding persons morally responsible for either determined or non-determined actions to show the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of free will theory. The Free Will Delusion is passionate, compassionate, and an exciting read. Highly recommended”

– Richard Double, philosopher, and author of The Non-reality of Free Will and Metaphilosophy and Free Will