Free will has been at the heart of philosophical and scientific discussions for many years.
However, recent advances in neuroscience have been perceived as a threat to the …

Are companies, churches, and states genuine agents? Or are they just collections of
individual agents that give a misleading impression of unity? This question is important …

Is consciousness—the subjective awareness of the sensations, perceptions, beliefs, desires,
and intentions of mental life—a genuine cause of human action or a mere impotent …

Since Hilary Putnam offered multiple realization as an empirical hypothesis in the 1960s,
philosophical consensus has turned against the idea that mental processes could be …

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The term 'naturalism'has no very precise meaning in contemporary philosophy. Its current
usage derives from debates in America in the first half of the last century. The self …

A crystal-clear, scientifically rigorous argument for the existence of free will, challenging
what many scientists and scientifically minded philosophers believe. Philosophers have …

The past few decades have seen an explosion of research on causal reasoning in
philosophy, computer science, and statistics, as well as descriptive work in psychology. In …

There is a systematic and suggestive analogy between grounding and causation. In my
view, this analogy is no coincidence. Grounding and causation are alike because grounding …

In 1687 Isaac Newton ushered in a new scientific era in which laws of nature could be used
to predict the movements of matter with almost perfect precision. Newton's physics also …