Tag: "free will & determinism"

The New Argument About Freedom

Natasha Gilbert says out with the old arguments, and in with the new.
[Issue 112: February/March 2016: Free Will]

The Brain’s Risk/Reward System Makes Our Choices, Not Us

Graham W. Boyd argues that choice is an illusion.
[Issue 112: February/March 2016: Free Will]

Akrasia: Why Do We Act Against Our Better Judgement?

George Singleton asks why we splash out on luxuries worth a month’s income, struggle to give up smoking, and resort to below-the-belt insults in heated arguments.
[Issue 112: February/March 2016: Free Will]

Reclaiming Freedom

Steve Taylor says of determinism: “I refute it thus!”
[Issue 112: February/March 2016: Free Will]

Free?

by Peter Duff
[Issue 112: February/March 2016: Poetry]

“… as it was determined to be so.”

Kevin Heinrich follows the fate of some determined townsfolk.
[Issue 112: February/March 2016: Short Story]

The Free Will of Ebenezer Scrooge

Richard Kamber considers the possibility of changing destiny.
[Issue 111: December 2015 / January 2016: Articles]

How On Earth Can We Be Free?

Raymond Tallis wrote this column of his own free will.
[Issue 110: October/November 2015: Tallis in Wonderland]

Einstein’s Morality

Ching-Hung Woo looks at the many facets of Albert Einstein’s approach to ethics.
[Issue 109: August/September 2015: Science & Morality]

A Metaphysics For Freedom by Helen Steward

We exercise free will this issue as Les Reid defends A Metaphysics For Freedom.
[Issue 105: November/December 2014: Books]