FREE-WILL: A REJOINDER TO DR. WARD

A study of Determinism and Free-will in Persian Proverbs

Proverbs as a part of colloquial literature are always nourished by religion, culture, traditions, and philosophical beliefs of a community, and thus they mirror the common beliefs of a people. The frequent repletion of a proverb pregnant with a specific thought makes that type of thought a behavioral pattern and affects the actions and behaviors of the people of a society. In the Iranian socie...

Outside Medicine Dr . Ward ' s Case

Many medical men-and women-have been enthusiastic gardeners.' But it is doubtful if any have been devoted to plants with quite such passion, or experienced so spectacular an outcome of their ambitious efforts, as an otherwise little-known surgeon who lived and practised amid the grime of London's dockland in the early years of the last century. It would be hard to conceive of a more unpromising...

The Scope of Man's Free Will

Free to punish: a motivated account of free will belief.

Belief in free will is a pervasive phenomenon that has important consequences for prosocial actions and punitive judgments, but little research has investigated why free will beliefs are so widespread. Across 5 studies using experimental, survey, and archival data and multiple measures of free will belief, we tested the hypothesis that a key factor promoting belief in free will is a fundamental...

Free will

Much of the best biological work in decision-making has been carried out in bacteria and insects because the genetics of these organisms is better understood and they provide the most physically accessible nervous systems. With the advent of modern imaging and neurophysiological techniques, however, decision-making by human and non-human primates has become a bustling area in the early stages o...