In philosophy, free will is defined as “the conduct of a human being which expresses personal choice, and is not determined by physical or divine forces.” People who believe in free will are called ...

(This article was coauthored with Kathleen D. Vohs and first published in Dialogue, the newsletter for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, alongside a companion piece by John Bargh and ...

Under certain extreme conditions Einstein’s general theory of relativity seems to violate determinism, according to an international team of physicists. The group has shown that in a universe ...

What argument against social change could be more effective than the claim that established orders exist as an accurate reflection of innate intellectual capacities? The following has been condensed ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Is Blur Group deterministically doomed to repeat the errors of the past as Martin Luther might have argued? Or ...

El objetivo de este ensayo es reexaminar el fenómeno conocido como determinismo tecnológico. Si bien la creencia en algo así como un desarrollo tecnológico autónomo, con una especie de lógica propia, ...

In my brushes with the self-help movement, I have repeatedly come across the phrase "Everything happens for a reason" (EHR). I don't know how common this belief is, but it seems to be widespread. At ...