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The Unceremonious Death of Free Will

2024-02-15

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<p>Thomas Hobbes, in his treatise "Of Liberty and Necessity," challenged the conventional understanding of free will by questioning the autonomy of the will itself, arguing that the ability to act according to one's will does not equate to the freedom of the will to form independently of external influences. Extending Hobbes's skepticism, Sapolsky's "Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will" employs modern...

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DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/5aytj

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