Memeing Naturalism

Interviewed here , the philosopher John Searle is an articulate, unabashed incompatibilist, someone who holds that free will is incompatibl...

Sam Harris podcasted a conversation with Dan Dennett about free will in which they try to sort out their differences. Here I offer what I h...

In his latest book, The Moral Landscape , Sam Harris devotes 10 pages (pp. 102-112) to debunking contra-causal free will and drawing out the...

At Why Evolution is True , Jerry Coyne, stout defender of science against anti-evolutionists and accomodationists , describes attending a co...

This is an invited response to Alex Rosenberg’s essay at On the Human, The disenchanted naturalist's guide to reality , in which he sugg...

The French proverb has it that “tout comprendre, c’est tout pardonner” – to understand all is to forgive all. Although it isn’t good interpe...

Back in February 2008, the New York Times and many other news outlets made mention of research conducted by Jonathan Schooler and Kathleen ...

The debate over so-called accomodationism (notably between Chris Mooney and Jerry Coyne , with significant contributions by Russell Blackf...