Robert Sapolsky is Determined to be Wrong
Robert Sapolsky’s, Behave, published in 2017, provides evidence that when it comes to moral and social matters, the dorso lateral prefrontal cortex, the “decider” part of the…
Robert Sapolsky’s, Behave, published in 2017, provides evidence that when it comes to moral and social matters, the dorso lateral prefrontal cortex, the “decider” part of the…
This article is a continuation of an interaction with a blogger calling himself Robot Philosopher. RP is a polemicist and likes to pepper his arguments with snide…
Iain McGilchrist, author of The Master and His Emissary, and The Matter With Things, is an expert on brain lateralization – the division between the right and…
The thesis of determinism is one of the strangest theories promoted by many academic philosophers. Many determinists seem to think that they can assert the absence of…
My apologies in advance for writing about humor in an unfunny way. Someone wrote once that in a certain prolonged analysis of humor (Freud?) there was not…
What follows is a real dialogue exchange. Names have been altered except for Richard Cocks. “If determinism is true, it makes no sense to speak of someone…
In “The Illogicality of Determinism," I point out the absurdity and contradictions of arguing for determinism.¹ The sheer pointlessness of the exercise is staggering. The “determined” arguer…
Physical determinism is the notion that all events, including thoughts and actions, are the result of cause and effect. Each effect is the result of a prior…