Philpapers Bleg

I am the free will editor for philpapers. So far I have resisted using my powers for evil (say, deciding that compatibilism isn't a theory about free will at all). Instead, I have been conscientiously trying to categorize papers in ways that are useful. The category system isn't very fine-grained (it seems to me that the addition of the consequence argument as a subcategory of libertarianism is a crying need), but it is what we have at the moment. Now I need your help. As I have confessed elsewhere, I am pretty ignorant of the state of the debate prior to about 1970. Since earlier papers lack abstracts, and often take forever to get to the point (when they get there at all), this makes categorization of these papers rather difficult. That's where you, oh so cultured readers, come in. Either in comments here, or directly on the site, I would like your categorical input. To take a random example, who was Patrick Proctor Alexander and where does he go? If anyone prefers to avoid searching the site, I can put up lists of some of the (roughly 250) papers that need classification.

I would also appreciate it if you could add papers that are currently not listed (better still if you can upload a pdf). We also need free will bibligraphies (preferably in a format like bibtex or ris), which can be sent to me.

Oh, and while I have your attention, anyone know where this quote comes from? I once read someone commenting on Alasdair MacIntyre's notion of practice note that real life wasn't like the circumscribed games he uses as examples; instead, in real life conversation, say, the interaction was more like responding to knight to K4 with a cross-court backhand.

Comments

[David Chalmers]

OK, I've added "The consequence argument" under "Topics in free will" (not as a subcat of libertarianism or incompatibilism, to keep the category structure reasonably uniform).