Scientists think they can prove that free will is an illusion. Philosophers are urging them to think again.
People seem to like to infer motives. (Perhaps it’s an inherent evolutionary trait, allowing anticipation of your prey’s or predator’s next move?) I find that a lot of people get me wrong about my position on energy and sustainability — often deliberately so, I suspect.
Scientists think they can prove that free will is an illusion. Philosophers are urging them to think again.
[Revised entry by Patricia Curd on August 20, 2011.
Changes to: Internet resources]
The Presocratics were 6th and 5th century BCE Greek thinkers who introduced a new way of inquiring into the world and the place of human beings in it. They were recognized in antiquity as the first philosophers and scientists of the Western tradition.
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