This second edition of the Oxford Handbook of Free Will is intended to be a sourcebook and guide to current work on free will and related subjects. Its focus is on writings of the past forty years, in which there has been a resurgence of interest in traditional issues about the freedom of the will in the light of new developments in the sciences, philosophy and humanistic studies. Special attention is given to research on free will of the first decade of the twenty-first century since the publication of the first edition of the Handbook. All the essays have been newly written or rewritten for this volume. In addition, there are new essayists and essays surveying topics that have become prominent in debates about free will in the past decade, including new work on the relation of free will to physics, the neurosciences, cognitive science, psychology and empirical philosophy, new versions of traditional views (compatibilist, incompatibilist, libertarian, etc.) and new views (e.g., revisionism) that have emerged. The twenty-eight essays by prominent international scholars and younger scholars cover a host of free will related issues, such as moral agency and responsibility, accountability and blameworthiness in ethics, autonomy, coercion and control in social theory, criminal liability, responsibility and punishment in legal theory, issues about the relation of mind to body, consciousness and the nature of action in philosophy of mind and the cognitive and neurosciences, questions about divine foreknowledge, providence and human freedom in philosophy of religion, and general metaphysical questions about necessity and possibility, determinism, time and chance, quantum reality, causation and explanation.

这本《牛津自由意志手册》的第二版旨在成为关于自由意志和相关主题的当前工作的资料手册和指南。它的重点是过去四十年的著作，在这些著作中，根据科学、哲学和人文研究的新发展，人们对关于意志自由的传统问题重新产生了兴趣。本书特别关注自《手册》第一版出版以来的21世纪头十年对自由意志的研究。所有的文章都是为这一卷新写或重写的。此外，还有新的论文作者和文章调查了过去十年中在关于自由意志的辩论中变得突出的主题，包括关于自由意志与物理学、神经科学、认知科学、心理学和实证哲学的关系的新工作，传统观点的新版本（兼容主义、非兼容主义、自由主义等）和已经出现的新观点（例如，修正主义）。由著名国际学者和年轻学者撰写的28篇文章涵盖了大量与自由意志有关的问题，如道德机构和责任，伦理学中的问责制和责任感，社会理论中的自主性、胁迫和控制，法律理论中的刑事责任、责任和惩罚，有关心灵与身体关系的问题。心灵哲学、认知科学和神经科学中的意识和行动的性质，宗教哲学中关于神的预知、天意和人类自由的问题，以及关于必然性和可能性、决定论、时间和机会、量子现实、因果关系和解释的一般形而上学问题。