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05 Aug 09

Is free will an illusion?

This debate has focused on humans and 'conscious free will'. Yet when it comes to understanding how we initiate behaviour, we can learn a lot by looking at animals. Although we do not credit animals with anything like the consciousness in humans, researchers have found that animal behaviour is not as involuntary as it may appear. The idea that animals act only in response to external stimuli has long been abandoned, and it is well established that they initiate behaviour on the basis of their internal states, as we do. (Nature)

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22 Apr 08

Kant's Transcendental Idealism | Sellars

Published in Collections of Philosophy 6 (1976): 165-181.

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