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	Online Papers on Consciousness: Free Will - http://www.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers/online2.html#freewill Section on free will from David Chalmers' site.
	The Determinism and Freedom Philosophy Website - http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/dfwIntroIndex.htm A comprehensive collection of important papers on the philosophy of free will, freedom and determinism. By Prof. Ted Honderich.
	Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Incompatibilist (Nondeterministic) Theories of Free Will - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/incompatibilism-theories/ Randolph Clarke's survey of theories of freedom according to which it is inconsistent with causal determinism.
	Lecture Notes on Free Will and Determinism - Prof. Norman Swartz - http://www.sfu.ca/philosophy/swartz/freewill1.htm Discusses the various problems raised by different concepts of determinism, and presents an argument that physical determinism is compatible with free will.
	Naturalism.Org - Free Will - http://www.naturalism.org/freewill.htm A series of essays offering a naturalistic critique of libertarian free will, arguing that such freedom is illusory, and also unnecessary to ground our moral practices.

	Who's Afraid of Determinism? Rethinking Causes and Possibilities - http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/kitdraft.htm A chapter from the 'The Free Will Handbook' (edited by Robert Kane, 2002) by Christopher Taylor and Daniel Dennett.
	Free Will, Determinism, and Moral Responsibility - The Whole Thing in Brief - http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/ted12.htm Ted Honderich's (still quite long) summary of a deterministic philosophy of mind, and its consequences for our fundamental attitudes.
	Determinism as True, Compatibilism and Incompatibilism as Both False, and the Real Problem - http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/detkanebook.html A critique of the view that quantum theory disproves determinism, and an argument that freedom is simultaneously compatible and incompatible with determinism. By Prof. Ted Honderich.
	Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Free Will - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freewill/ An overview of theories of free will and the problems that they raise. By Timothy O'Connor.

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