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...
Published on July 27, 2016 03:35