Finding Hope When Everything Feels Hopeless
Hope is important for resiliency. Here are ways to boost it.
The Wall Street Journal
Topics: Agency Emotion Hope Optimism Resilience
3 Ways to Leverage Boredom and Change Your Life
Bored out of your mind? Here are three tricks to use that feeling to your advantage.
Inverse
Topics: Agency Meaning Purpose
The Real Reason We’re Afraid of Robots
Humanity’s worries about being outsmarted and overthrown by omnipotent man-made automatons is much older than computer technology.
Los Angeles Times
Topics: Agency Bias Technology
The Threat of Boredom Is a Call to Action
We typically try to avoid boredom. But in trying to outrun boredom, we risk failing to heed its call.
Behavioral Scientist
Topics: Agency Purpose
Does Moral Responsibility Require Free Will?
Featuring interviews with Alfred Mele, Thalia Wheatley, Patrick Haggard, Roy Baumeister, and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong.
Closer To Truth
Topics: Agency Alfred Mele Determinism Free Will Morality Self-Control
The Neuroscience of Free Will: A Q&A with Robyn Repko Waller
Blending philosophy and neuroscience in unraveling the mysteries of free will.
Beautiful Minds, Scientific American
Topics: Agency Free Will Scott Barry Kaufman
Can Neuroscience Understand Free Will?
Perhaps free will won’t forever be an issue philosophers mull over for a lifetime.
Nautilus
Topics: Agency Determinism Free Will Morality
First Things First: The Physics of Causality
Why do we remember the past and not the future? Untangling the connections between cause and effect, choice, and entropy.
FQXi
Topics: Agency Information Nature of Time
The Urgency of Agency
Our consciousness gets in the way of thinking about evolution.
Life, Unbounded, Scientific American
Topics: Agency Evolutionary Mechanisms Evolutionary Theory Extraterrestrial Life Origin of Life
There’s No Such Thing as Free Will
But we’re better off believing in it anyway.
The Atlantic
Topics: Agency Determinism Free Will Meaning Morality
Yes, Determinists, There Is Free Will
You make choices even if your atoms don’t.
Topics: Agency Decision-Making Determinism Free Will Metaphysics
Free Will Is Not Going Away
Many neuroscientists and some philosophers consider free will to be an illusion, but the situation is not so simple.
Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement
Topics: Agency Free Will Marcelo Gleiser
The Free Will Project: An Interview with Santiago Amaya and Manuel Vargas
Research into free will, responsibility, and agency.
APA Blog
Topics: Agency Free Will Metaphysics Morality
The “Bias Blind Spot” Just Replicated (“Everyone Else Is More Biased Than Me”)
Prasad Chandrashekar, Siu Kit Yeung, and colleagues report reproducing the original study.
British Psychological Society Research Digest
Topics: Agency Bias Free Will
Why Mortality Makes Us Free
The heart of spiritual life can not be found in nirvana or heaven, but in the mutual recognition that this life is our ultimate purpose.
The Stone, The New York Times
Topics: Agency Morality Purpose Spirituality
Feeling Anxious? It’s Not Just You, It’s Our Philosophical Era of Neuroexistentialism
This contemporary angst arises from the growing body of knowledge that shows the existence we experience is a result of neural processes.
Quartz
Topics: Agency Determinism Free Will Meaning Morality Naturalism Purpose
How Does Your Brain Construct Your Conscious Reality?
Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality.
TED Radio Hour
Topics: Agency Consciousness Reality
How Much Control Do You Really Have Over Your Actions? These Brain Regions Provide Clues
Neuroscientists are beginning to pinpoint the regions of the brain involved in the perception of free will.
Science
Topics: Agency Free Will
Believing Addiction Reduces Free Will May Hamper Efforts To Quit
Telling people they cannot control addictive behaviors may discourage them from trying to control addictive behaviors, thereby needlessly prolonging addiction.
Science Trends
The Believing Brain
The human brain has a compulsion to attribute meaning to what happens in our lives through a belief system.
All In The Mind, ABC Radio National
Topics: Agency Belief Brian Greene Cognition Meaning Spirituality
What Makes Deceit Such a Hard Habit to Break?
New research gets at the psychology behind serial misconduct.
Kellogg Insight
Topics: Adam Waytz Agency Deception Ethics Honesty Morality
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