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Sabine Hossenfelder’s Free Will Folly & The Deadly Sin Of Reification
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Sabine Hossenfelder’s Free Will Folly & The Deadly Sin Of Reification

Sabine Hossenfelder released a video in which she said, "Now that Science told me I can't make any choices, I make better choices." Or words to that effect. She wants…
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Physicist Discovers He Has No Free Will: Chooses To Write Book To Say He Cannot Make Choices
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Physicist Discovers He Has No Free Will: Chooses To Write Book To Say He Cannot Make Choices

Robert Sapolsky, a Stanford academic, took decades---decades, he says---to conclude he does not have free will. He chose now as the time to tell us of his decades-long, fruitless search…
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Free Will in Covenantal Moral Theology — Guest Post by John Kelleher
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Free Will in Covenantal Moral Theology — Guest Post by John Kelleher

I asked John to help explain to us the idea of free will in covenantal theology. This is, of course, a most difficult subject. But then, grasping free will, if…
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It Takes Just As Much Free Will To Punish As To Do Wrong
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It Takes Just As Much Free Will To Punish As To Do Wrong

Listen to the podcast on YouTube, Bitchute, or Gab. Thing that always cracks me up about anti-free will arguments is the contradictions. Too many of those arguments take this shape:…
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Sabine Hossenfelder Tries, Using Free Will, To Explain She Doesn’t Have Free Will
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Sabine Hossenfelder Tries, Using Free Will, To Explain She Doesn’t Have Free Will

Here's a video Philosopher's Cabin asked me to review. We met its author, Sabine Hossenfelder, before, when she was trying to explain how black holes enhanced Diversity, or the other…
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Readers Wills Himself To Write And Claim We Have No Free Will
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Readers Wills Himself To Write And Claim We Have No Free Will

Anon, a sweetheart and buyer of the majestic Everything You Believe Is Wrong, wrote to say my enemies have managed to insert several typos into the book. A not uncommon,…
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The Moral Reason for Free Will — Guest Post by The Cranky Professor
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The Moral Reason for Free Will — Guest Post by The Cranky Professor

Do human persons have free will? I would say so. And I will expound on a fairly common yet powerful argument for the existence of free will, viz., that moral…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Free Will Is Still Subject To God
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Free Will Is Still Subject To God

Previous post. God can bend the will. Why not? How He does so, is not given here. THAT HUMAN ACTS OF CHOICE AND OF WILL ARE SUBJECT TO DIVINE PROVIDENCE…
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