Most contemporary arguments about free will are between thinkers who believe free will is compatible with determinism and ...

Here is a simple example of the fallacy of Causal Determinism in which all three principles above are implicated: "I don't believe smoking causes cancer because (a) lots of people who smoke don't get ...

Causal determinism was first scientifically articulated by the great French polymath Pierre-Simon Laplace. He contended that if you knew the location of every particle in the universe and the laws ...