Free Will

A philosopher considers whether the scientific and philosophical arguments against free will are reason enough to give up our belief in it. In our daily life, it really seems as though we have free will, that what we do from moment to moment is determined by conscious decisions that we freely make.You get up from the couch, you go for a walk, you eat chocolate ice cream.It seems that we're in control of actions like these; if we are, then we have free will.But in recent years, some have argued that free will is an illusion.The neuroscientist (and best-selling author) Sam Harris and the late Harvard psychologist Daniel Wegner, for example, claim that certain scientific findings disprove free will.In this engaging and accessible volume in the Essential Knowledge series, the philosopher Mark Balaguer examines the various arguments and experiments that have been cited to support the claim that human beings don't have free will.He finds them to be overstated and misguided. Balaguer discusse