Series: After Free Will
Read the After Free Will articles in order.
- Part 1
I Don't Think We Have Free Will
Why I think our choices are caused rather than freely authored, and why that leaves more room for compassion.
- Part 2
What Would Free Will Have to Be?
What kind of control would free will require, and which forms of agency survive without ultimate self-authorship?
- Part 3
Every Choice Has a History
How biology, experience, culture, and the immediate moment accumulate behind every decision we make.
- Part 4
Choice Still Matters
Why causation is not fatalism, and why deliberation, effort, reasons, and practical agency still change what happens.
- Part 5
The Battle of Information
How facts, stories, repetition, trust, power, and information environments become causes that shape minds and societies.
- Part 6
Can Justice Survive Without Free Will?
How accountability, protection, repair, and rehabilitation can support justice without retribution.
- Part 7
Doing Our Best in a Caused World
How to live fully with emotion, uncertainty, meaning, compassion, and practical agency in a world shaped by causes.
