Is Belief in Free Will a Cultural Universal?

This is the title of a recent paper by a group promoting 'experimental philosophy'. This involves the "use of the methods of experimental psychology to probe the way people think about philosophical issues and then examine how the results of such studies bear on traditional philosophical debates" (Nadelhoffer and Nahmias, 2007: 123) The paper examines … Continue reading Is Belief in Free Will a Cultural Universal?