Philosophical Studies: An International Journal for Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition, Vol. 131, No. 2 (Nov., 2006), pp. 419-445 (27 pages) Several prominent incompatibilists, e.g., Robert Kane and ...

A philosophy professor examines the notions of free will and determinism through test methods used in social sciences. Experimental philosophy can likely help address other conundrums as well.

It is argued that seemingly "merely technical" issues about the existence and uniqueness of self-adjoint extensions of symmetric operators in quantum mechanics have interesting implications for ...

(This article was coauthored with Kathleen D. Vohs and first published in Dialogue, the newsletter for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, alongside a companion piece by John Bargh and ...

In the first half of the semester, we will discuss philosophical problems of classical mechanics and classical field theories: the persistence of matter, modality, the representation of mechanical ...

Determinism is not just causality. Determinism goes far beyond causality, and certainly much farther than psychological science requires. Many scientific psychologists embrace determinism without ...

Abounded response to events is the key to defining a hard real-time system. Real-time systems require determinism to ensure predictable behavior. Without determinism, systems can't be called real-time ...