WHY FREE WILL REMAINS A MYSTERY

The anti-McCollough effect: the mystery remains.

Free Riders and Pious Sons – Why Science Research Remains Obligatory

John Harris has previously proposed that there is a moral duty to participate in scientific research. This concept has recently been challenged by Iain Brassington, who asserts that the principles cited by Harris in support of the duty to research fail to establish its existence. In this paper we address these criticisms and provide new arguments for the existence of a moral obligation to resea...

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...

Why Children’s Suggestibility Remains a Serious Concern

After more than two decades of continuous contemporary research on the child as a witness in legal proceedings, a great deal is known about children’s eyewitness memory and suggestibility. Excellent reviews of this research are available, and their summaries and conclusions will not be reiterated here. Instead, this article will focus on six areas representing some of the most intractable probl...

The Scope of Man's Free Will