My friend Vic Stenger
has written a blog on free will, mostly in response to Sam Harris
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/victor-stenger/free-will-is-an-illusion_b_1562533.html?ref=science
(don't bother to read the comments)
Vic suggests dropping the term 'free will' and using the term
'autonomy' to refer to the social/legal concept of acting free of
coercion.
And Jerry Coyne has also commented.
http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2012/06/04/victor-stenger-and-janna-levin-on-our-lack-of-free-will/
(do read the comments)
He is strictly a determinist and denies the implication of
compatibilism that there some 'free will' (or autonomy) worth
having. But interestingly both he and Vic conclude that this
implies we need to overhaul our judicial system, while Harris is
not so sure.
Brent
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