Philosophy is at its best when it is digging around at corners in our world-view that we don’t understand, forcing … More
Category: Free will
Scanlon at Berkeley, Part III. Learning from Psychopaths.
Tim Scanlon’s final topic during his series of Townsend lectures at UC Berkeley was “Learning from Psychopaths”. This was … More
Free Will and Benjamin Libet, part III, Epiphenomenalism
Here’s what we have so far. Neurobiology seems to make free will impossible, even if full proof of a causal … More
Free Will and Benjamin Libet, part II
In the 1980s, Benjamin Libet ran a series of experiments in neurophysiology which seemed to show that the brain makes … More
Free Will and Benjamin Libet, part I
Do we have free will? Do we need it? What in the world is free will anyway? A few thoughts … More
