Free Will: Options and Choices and Agency! Oh, my!
Rebecca Layne I wish I could report that the time when I grabbed my sister’s brand new golf club and …
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Can Mind and Body be Reconciled?
By Jaimie Xie It seems that a mixture of nature and nurture can explain all of our habits and behavior, …
Oppression and Freedom: The Inscrutable Forces that Control Them
By: Robert Shi “Yes.” This is the answer I most often receive when I ask peers if they believe …
Antigone and the Absence of Free Will
by Anna Northrop It is the dark hour of midnight in the city of Thebes. Civil war has …
Is Free Will an Illusion?
by Maya Pete It has been one-hundred-fifteen days since police officer, Darren Wilson, shot high school graduate Michael Brown—once because he …
Free Will: From Thought to Action
By Tristan Vanech Although a thousand trumpets blast about us, Who moves you if the senses yield nothing? A light …
Free Will: Passion’s Puppet
by Maggie Sun I had my first encounter with love when I was eighteen. Until then I’d been a skeptic—having …
On Free Choice: Are We Really Just Puppets?
By Joyce Kang Recent findings in the field of neuroscience suggest that humans are like marionette puppets with forces beyond …
Free Will and Francesca’s Moral Responsibility
by Claire Howlett The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy defines free will as the “capacity of rational agents to choose a …
Weil, Dante and Framing the Question of Free Will
by Albert Liang Before we can have any meaningful discussion on the existence of free will, we must first …
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