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From David Sosa ( ), The University Of Texas at Austin, Department of Philosophy, Professor and Chair PhD, Princeton
Is free will an illusion?Scientists and philosophers are using new discoveries in neuroscience to question the idea of free will. They are misguided, says Martin Heisenberg. Examining animal behaviour shows how our actions can be free.
Quantum randomness may not be randomQuantum wierdness? Spooky action at a distance? The nature of the natural world is fuzzy at the quantum level, where things can be in two places at the same time. Particles can interact instantaneously over seemingly any distance.
Misrepresenting Naturalism: An Open Letter to R. Albert Mohler, Jr.Although I can't speak for all of them, naturalists, who take scientific and philosophical inquiry as the most reliable means of knowing reality, are most certainly not bent on subverting moral responsibility.
John R. Burr and Milton Goldinger, in their book Philosophy and Contemporary Issues, provide a well-reasoned anthology of philosophical articles.
Michael Medved: (Non-African) American Capitalist Superiority is 'Genetic'; Democrats Bucking 'American DNA' (Literally)In today's ruthlessly competitive international economy, the United States may benefit from a potent but unheralded advantage: the aggressive edge sustained by the inherited power of American DNA.
Evolution is deterministic, not random, biologists conclude from multi-species studyA multi-national team of biologists has concluded that developmental evolution is deterministic and orderly, rather than random, based on a study of different species of roundworms. The findings are reported in the latest issue of the journal Current Biology.
Consider three dominoes lined up at a distance just shorter than their height. When my finger pushes the first it will fall, strike the second, and unleash a series of effects that will only be stopped by inertia.
Good Math, Bad Math : Quantum Computation Complexity: BQPWhat started me on this whole complexity theory series was a question in the comments about the difference between quantum computers and classical computers.
An article by Behind My Screen: "There is no Free Will: A Secular Argument" inspired me to write a little about the relation between the laws of nature and free will.
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