ARE black holes bald or hairy? On that strange and esoteric question may hang the future of the universe’s past. The present, the past and the future are all connected by physical laws, a phenomenon ...

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about my friend Stephen Jay Gould, acknowledging his faults but also saying that I thought him a great force for moral good. The reason why I wrote was because, just ...

So, at first glance, it seems like our understanding of physics forbids free will. We don't really have a choice, because if ...

Much contemporary scholarship on free will focuses on whether it is compatible with causal determinism. According to compatibilists, it is possible for an agent to be determined in all her choices and ...

Back in 1814, Pierre-Simon Laplace was mulling over the implications of Newtonian mechanics, and realized something profound. If there were a vast intelligence -- since dubbed Laplace's Demon-- that ...

Determinism is not just causality. Determinism goes far beyond causality, and certainly much farther than psychological science requires. Many scientific psychologists embrace determinism without ...

Philosophical Studies was founded in 1950 by Herbert Feigl and Wilfrid Sellars to provide a periodical dedicated to work in analytic philosophy. The journal remains devoted to the publication of ...