Themed Articles: Free Will

Spinoza & Other Determinists

Myint Zan compares different ways of denying free will.
[Issue 159: December 2023 / January 2024]

What Is Free Will?

Grant Bartley wants to know what the problem with freedom is all about.
[Issue 159: December 2023 / January 2024]

Criticising Strawson’s Compatibilism

Nurana Rajabova is wary of an attempt to dismiss determinism to keep free will.
[Issue 159: December 2023 / January 2024]

Materialism, Freedom & Ethics

Philip Badger constructs a materialist ethical theory, with the help of John Rawls.
[Issue 159: December 2023 / January 2024]

The Will Is Not Free: You Have To Earn It

Basil Gala on what it takes to free ourselves from our formative factors.
[Issue 159: December 2023 / January 2024]

Free Will Is An Illusion, But Freedom Isn’t

Ching-Hung Woo says freedom is compatible with choices being determined.
[Issue 112: February/March 2016]

The New Argument About Freedom

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

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]

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]

Reclaiming Freedom

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