Imagine standing at a crossroads. You pause, thinking you’re about to make a choice — left or right, stay or go, yes or no. It feels deliberate, conscious, yours. But what if that moment of decision ...

Free will is one of those things people argue about endlessly, and the reason is that they are confusing two different cognitive realities, one relating to mentalism, and one to mechanism. The former ...

Does free will exist? A simple thought experiment confirms it, surely. If every action we make is predetermined by the laws of physics, then it is possible to imagine constructing a computer that ...

In his new book, The Science of Free Will, Roy Baumeister, professor of psychology at The University of Queensland, discusses three studies that asked college students and adults what they think it ...