Souls, Spirits, and Ghosts are Not Free Will Mechanisms

For this ‘just after’ Halloween postI’ll bemovingoutside of reality and talk about how souls, spirits,and ghosts cannot befree will mechanisms. I bring this up because someone who had read my book liked it very much, but felt that the section on “supernaturalism” was a little thin. They felt that the book made a strong case for the materialistic account of a lack of free will, but that someone’s “soul” could support some sort of “free will” mechanism.

So for this post I’m going to ignore any...