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The War on Terror: A Response to Jonathan Church

In a previous article for Areo, I revisit the philosophical debate about free will and determinism, arguing that the recently debunked Libet experiments are irrelevant to the main conceptual issue.…

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11 min

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Free Will, the Libet Experiments and the War on Terror

On 10 September 2019, a headline in the Atlantic announced, “A Famous Argument Against Free Will Has Been Debunked.” The argument in question was based on the findings of what…

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12 min

Annaka Harris’s “Conscious” and the Trap of Dualism

Annaka Harris’s recent book Conscious presents a concise and well-written exploration of consciousness, with an emphasis on the mystery of subjective experience. Harris approaches this difficult topic from a secular,…

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18 min

Can We Make Ourselves Believe? A Letter Exchange

Peter Boghossian is an assistant professor of philosophy at Portland State University. He is the author of A Manual for Creating Atheists (2013) and, with James Lindsay, of the forthcoming…

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13 min

Free Will and Sam Harris’ Puppet Analogy: A Reply to Iona Italia

I’ve been exchanging letters with Jon Rosen about free will and determinism on the platform Letter. A few days ago, I was happy to read Iona Italia’s thoughtful article about…

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15 min

On Free Will: A Letter Exchange

Benjamin Burgis teaches philosophy at Rutgers University in New Jersey and is a sci fi author. His new book, Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left has been reviewed…

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Free Will

The War on Terror: A Response to Jonathan Church

Free Will, the Libet Experiments and the War on Terror

Annaka Harris’s “Conscious” and the Trap of Dualism

Can We Make Ourselves Believe? A Letter Exchange

Free Will and Sam Harris’ Puppet Analogy: A Reply to Iona Italia

On Free Will: A Letter Exchange

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