Laws, Mind, and Free Will

Ranked #44 in Philosopher

An account of scientific laws that vindicates the status of psychological laws and shows natural laws to be compatible with free will.

In Laws, Mind, and Free Will, Steven Horst addresses the apparent dissonance between the picture of the natural world that arises from the sciences and our understanding of ourselves as agents who think and act. If the mind and the world are entirely governed by natural laws, there seems to be no room left for free will to operate. Moreover, although the laws of physical science are clear and verifiable, the sciences of the mind seem...
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