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Derk Pereboom
Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy and Ethics, Cornell University. Author of Living Wihout Free Will (2001) and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Moral Responsibility (2022).
Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy and Ethics, Cornell University. Author of Living Wihout Free Will (2001) and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Moral Responsibility (2022).
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Me, myself and others

Knowing what to believe
Free will: an impossible reality

What physicists get wrong about consciousness

The brain doesn't create consciousness

Are you responsible for your unconscious self?

The Dangers of Musk’s Neuralink

Moral responsibility without free will

Consciousness is the collapse of the wave function

The impotence of reason

Schrödinger and the conscious universe

Why panpsychism is baloney

Imagination, consciousness and animal dreams

The free will debate has real-world consequences

Denis Noble: Free will is not an illusion

Consciousness may not require a brain

Big tech doesn’t want AI to become conscious

Pinker on the power of irrationality

Future AI in the therapist's chair

When are intuitions a good guide to reality?

Nietzsche: ignorance sets us free

Why Steven Pinker is wrong about rationality

Consciousness begins with feeling, not thinking

The absurdity of mind as machine

Is rationality a fiction?

Brain noise doesn't explain consciousness

David Nutt: entropy explains consciousness

Bias doesn't always undermine truth

Brain vs Heart: a false dichotomy

Free will is an invention