Free will is the idea that humans can make their own choices and determine their own fates. Is a person’s will free, or are people's lives in fact shaped by powers outside of their control? The ...

University of Essex provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. From coffee table books and social media to popular science lectures, it seems it has has become increasing fashionable for ...

Shedding the concept “completely strikes at our sense of identity and autonomy,” the Stanford biologist and neuroscientist argues. It might also be liberating. Robert Sapolsky, biologist and ...

Here's an interesting 5 minute video accusing Richard Dawkins of being inconsistent in holding that belief in free will and moral responsibility is justified but that belief in God is unjustified. The ...