This is the first in a new series of posts, on “Science and Philosophy," featuring interviews with influential scientists and philosophers of science. This is part 3 in an interview series with Bas ...
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 ...
A new book by a Stanford neurobiologist offers a jarring proposition: that humans do not have free will and thus cannot be considered morally responsible for our actions. In “Determined: A Science of ...
Harry Frankfurt, professor of philosophy, emeritus, renowned for his scholarship on free will and moral responsibility, died from a number of causes, including congestive heart failure, at a care ...
Towards the end of a conversation about some of the deepest puzzles of human existence, the philosopher Galen Strawson paused, then asked me: “Have you spoken to anyone else yet who’s received weird ...
This is the first in a new series of posts, on “Science and Philosophy," featuring interviews with influential scientists and philosophers of science. This is part 3 in an interview series with Bas ...