Is Free Will an Illusion?
Philosophers have been making the claim that free will is an illusion for hundreds of years. What does modern neuroscience have to say about it?
Freethink
Topics: Consciousness Free Will
A Student Just Proved Paradox-Free Time Travel Is Possible
Time travel is deterministic and locally free, a new paper says.
Popular Mechanics
Topics: Determinism Free Will
From Chaos to Free Will
A crude understanding of physics sees determinism at work in the Universe. Luckily, molecular uncertainty ensures this isn’t so.
Aeon
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
Machine Morality
As machines become more autonomous, humans must define the limits of their decision-making. UNC postdoctoral researcher Yochanan Bigman addresses this topic, suggesting where to draw the line when self-governing technology is required to make life-or-death decisions.
UNC Endeavors
Topics: Free Will Morality Robots Technology Values
Book Review: A Physicist’s Grand Tour of the Universe
In Until the End of Time, Brian Greene explores a stunning array of human thought, from evolution to consciousness.
Undark
Topics: Brian Greene Consciousness Cosmic Origins Free Will Meaning Universe
We Tend to See Acts We Disapprove of as Deliberate
A bias that helps explain why conservatives believe in free will more than liberals.
British Psychological Society Research Digest
Topics: Free Will Morality
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
A Famous Argument Against Free Will Has Been Debunked
For decades, a landmark brain study fed speculation about whether we control our own actions. It seems to have made a classic mistake.
The Atlantic
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
There’s No Such Thing as Free Will
But we’re better off believing in it anyway.
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.
Topics: Agency Bias Free Will
Philosophers and Neuroscientists Join Forces to See Whether Science Can Solve the Mystery of Free Will
The collaboration, the researchers say, can help them tackle two important questions: What does it take to have free will? And whatever that is, do we have it?
Science
Topics: Consciousness Decision-Making Free Will
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
Libertarian Free Will: Neuroscientific and Philosophical Evidence
A free online course with Peter Tse, a professor of psychological and brain sciences, funded by the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement at Dartmouth.
DartmouthX
Philosophy Has Made Plenty of Progress
Philosopher Tim Maudlin sees advances in free will, morality, and the meaning of quantum mechanics.
Cross-Check, Scientific American
Topics: Consciousness Ethics Free Will Multiverse Quantum Mechanics
This Halloween, a Social Experiment Will Allow Internet Users to Control the Actions of a Real Person
MIT Media Laboratory’s BeeMe is the love child of Black Mirror and psychologist Stanley Milgram’s notorious experiments on free will and obedience.
Smithsonian
Topics: Cooperation Decision-Making Free Will
Just Deserts
Can we be held morally responsible for our actions? Yes, says Daniel Dennett. No, says Gregg Caruso.
Topics: Determinism Free Will Luck Morality Self-Control
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