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.
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
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
Topics: Determinism Free Will
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.
Aeon
Topics: Determinism Free Will Luck Morality Self-Control
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.
Topics: Agency Free Will
The Fate of Free Will: When Science Crosses Swords With Philosophy
In some domains the two knowledge systems are complementary, but in others they might be headed for conflict.
Scientific American
Topics: Avi Loeb Free Will
Contrary to Popular Psychological Theory, Believers in Free Will Were No More Generous or Honest
Across all four studies, people who believed more strongly in free will were no more generous (if anything there was a trend in the other direction, toward less generosity), and cheated just as often.
Topics: Free Will Generosity Honesty Morality
Constructing a Theory of Life
An all-encompassing framework of physics could help to explain the evolution of consciousness, intelligence, and free will.
FQXi
Topics: Consciousness Emergence Free Will Information Intelligence Quantum Mechanics
Will Science Ever Solve the Mysteries of Consciousness, Free Will and God?
Are consciousness, free will and God insoluble mysteries?
Topics: Consciousness Free Will Knowledge Limits of Science
Could Quantum Computing Be the End of Free Will?
On the fear that too much processing power will make us cease to be human.
Topics: Free Will
You Can Deny Free Will Exists and Not Be a Jerk
New research finds no relationship between ethical behavior and belief — or disbelief — in free will.
Pacific Standard
Topics: Ethics Free Will Morality
Testing Philosophy Through Experiments
New technologies could shed light on old philosophical questions, such as the nature of the mind and whether moral values reflect universal truth.
Topics: Free Will Morality Origin of Life
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.
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