Many people think that it’s a no-brainer that if our choices are determined then they can’t be free. However, the philosophical thesis known as compatibilism states that freedom can exist in a fully ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Kellert ("In the Wake of Chars", University of Chicago press, Chicago, 1993) has argued that Laplacean determinism in classical physics is ...

As a philosopher, I often find speculation about the implications of neuroscience for free will perplexing. While some neuroscientists describe free will in ways that I recognize, others, including ...

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research was founded in 1940 by Marvin Farber, who edited it for forty years. Since 1980 it has been at Brown, where it has been edited by Roderick Chisholm and then, ...

Neil Levy receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Templeton Foundation. For most of the last couple of centuries, philosophers have had the question of free will largely to ...