Does something like “free will” really exist? We often take it for granted, but philosophers, psychologists and neuroscientists have debated the issue for decades—if not centuries. In his recent Ph.D. at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), titled “The Free Will Discussion: an Interdisciplinary Analysis from the Psychological, Neuroscientific and Neurophilosophical Perspective,” Eric Kerckhofs delves deeper into this fundamental question. His approach is unusually broad, drawing together insights from psychology, neuroscience and philosophy.
Investigating whether we truly have free will
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