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an informal philosophy blog by Gregg Shores

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

Compatibilism, Kant, Rick Lenon

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

Charles Sherrington, David Papeneau, Howard Robinson, John Eccles, Neurobiology, Other Minds, Zombies

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

Jerry Fodor, John Heil, Psychology Today, Steve Taylor

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

Dan Dennett, Daniel Wegner, John Heil, Massimo Pigliucci, Materialism, Property Dualism, Psychology Today, Rick Lenon, Steve Taylor, T. H. Huxley
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