More on John Searle and Free Will

A reader objects to my post, "John Searle on Free Will." The reader cites Searle's books Rationality in Action and Freedom and Neurobiology, contending that he is in fact a defender of free will, and consequently that we owe Searle an apology. However, I stand by what I wrote.

Here's a quote from Searle in a print interview on this topic:

If forced to choose today on the basis of the evidence we have, we would choose the hypothesis that suggests that free will is an illusion.

Searle does th...