Source: Last semester I taught a new seminar on the psychology of free will. The upshot of the class—and of a wealth of recent research on the subject—was that the evidence in favor of free will is weak. We all have a profound sense that we are free agents, masters of our own fates who […]
Free Will
Is Free Will a Myth? – David Livingstone Smith Ph.D
In my last post, I discussed libertarianism. Just to remind you, libertarianism is the view that determinism is false and that our choices are radically free. Just as theists believe that God is the first cause—the uncaused cause of everything that exists—libertarians believe that human agents are the first cause of their own choices. We’re […]