In his new book, The Science of Free Will, Roy Baumeister, professor of psychology at The University of Queensland, discusses three studies that asked college students and adults what they think it ...

Sponsor: Artisan Publishing His book explores the mysteries of our choices. A curious look at whether free will really exists ...

In 2023, Stanford University professor and MacArthur Foundation grant recipient Robert M. Sapolsky published a book that questioned some commonly held beliefs about how our minds work. The subtitle of ...

AI is advancing at such speed that speculative moral questions, once the province of science fiction, are suddenly real and pressing, says a philosopher and psychology researcher Frank Martela.

Imagine standing at a crossroads. You pause, thinking you’re about to make a choice — left or right, stay or go, yes or no. It feels deliberate, conscious, yours. But what if that moment of decision ...

AI is advancing at a rapid speed. This has led some researchers to worry, drawing upon speculative moral questions, about the future position of machines in relation to humanity. According to ...

Do you believe in free will? Some scholars do not — and they rely on evidence from the brain sciences to make their case. Some people find the dismissal of the idea that we are in control of our ...

Does quantum physics place limits on the extent to which we have free will? This long-debated question stems from the way different physicists interpret the mathematics of quantum theory, but now ...