Matthew Taylor of the RSA sometimes writes about cultural theory and when he does it's always worth reflecting on. At the very end of 2009 he was looking at the idea of free will: Faced with a social choice we can do what we want or feels right for us (individualistic impulse), do what the … Continue reading Do we have free will?
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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?
Four Cultures 