Do you believe in free will? Some scholars do not—and they rely on evidence from the brain sciences to make their case. Some people find the dismissal of the idea that we are in control of our ...

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.

Neuroscience suggests that your brain makes decisions before you are consciously aware of them, raising the uncomfortable possibility that free will is a story we tell after the fact. The reason you ...