TY  - JOUR
PB  - University of Chicago Press
VL  - 133
A1  - Gingerich, J
Y1  - 2022/10//
N2  - Spontaneous freedom, the freedom of unplanned and unscripted activity en-joyed by ?free spirits,? is central to everyday talk about ?freedom.? Yet the freedom of spontaneity is absent from contemporary moral philosophers? theories of free-dom. This article begins to remedy the philosophical neglect of spontaneous free-dom. I offer an account of the nature of spontaneous freedom and make a case for its value. I go on to show how an understanding of spontaneous freedom clarifies the free will debate by helping to make sense of the libertarian claim that compa-tibilist varieties of freedom do not allow for genuine novelty and creativity.
IS  - 1
AV  - public
EP  - 71
JF  - Ethics
N1  - This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.
ID  - discovery10197495
TI  - Spontaneous Freedom
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/720778
SP  - 38
ER  -