The Clockwork Universe: Is Free Will an Illusion?
The Guardian
Topics: Determinism Free Will Morality
Do We Have Free Will? Maybe It Doesn’t Matter
Nautilus
Topics: Belief Determinism Ethics Free Will Morality
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?
Closer To Truth
Topics: Agency Alfred Mele Determinism Free Will Morality Self-Control
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.
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
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
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
Fuelling Free Will
Alfred Mele has spent four years and four million dollars to try to get to the bottom of free will. He learnt that it was like petrol.
The Philosopher's Zone, ABC Radio National
Topics: Alfred Mele Determinism Free Will
The Grandeur and Limits of Science
A passionate translator of the beauty and relevance of scientific questions, Margaret Wertheim is also wise about the limits of science to tell the whole story of the human self.
On Being
Topics: Determinism Krista Tippett Limits of Science Reductionism
Big Questions in Free Will
Do we have free will? After so many centuries of debate by so many great thinkers, can we still make progress in answering this question? That’s the goal of the Big Questions in Free Will Project.
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