Self-respect arises when a person accepts responsibility for their thoughts, choices, and actions that align with ethical and ...

In January of 2010, I launched the four-year Big Questions in Free Will project. The project’s main aim was to bring scientists—specifically, neuroscientists and social, cognitive, and developmental ...

The takeaway of Robert Sapolsky’s Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will is basically the same as that espoused by those Snickers commercials: You’re not you when you’re hungry. Except ...

Quantum laws may well be at odds with the idea of free will, but the behaviour of complex systems can’t always be predicted by the actions of their parts. The capacity for free will arises from ...