Each of us belongs to a world of cause and effect, governed by natural laws. Author and neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky argues that our actions, like everything else, are fully determined by conditions ...

IN considering the life of man in history or in contemporary social relations there are two hypotheses open to us. We may postulate that, from the largest sweep of the historic process down to the ...

The takeaway of Robert Sapolsky’s Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will is basically the same as that espoused by those Snickers commercials: You’re not you when you’re hungry. Except ...

There is a lot of discussion about stereotypes in the media. On the one hand, many people believe that stereotypes provide a useful way of reasoning about a member of a group if you have no other ...

Determinism is linked to the idea of causality, which is the relationship between cause and effect. Under certain conditions, an event will cause an outcome. Determinists believe that much of what ...

READERS new to Feedback may be unaware of our attempts over the years to expand humanity’s understanding of nominative determinism – the phenomenon, first identified in this column, in which people’s ...

There is a lot of discussion about stereotypes in the media. On the one hand, many people believe that stereotypes provide a useful way of reasoning about a member of a group if you have no other ...