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Finding Purpose in a Godless World Why we care even if the universe doesn’t The book Finding Purpose in a Godless World A psychiatrist presents a compelling argument for how human purpose and caring emerged in a spontaneous and unguided universe. Can there be purpose...

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements This book has been an almost decade-long project, or if I am to be honest—an obsession. For a couple of years prior to starting to write an actual book, I had been reading voraciously and bombarding the email inboxes of family and friends in an...

Interviews (incl. audio/video)

Interviews and recorded talks (the audio versions of most recorded interviews can be downloaded to your device) The Commentary, with Joseph Planta:  Listen to the episode. The Michelangelo Signorile Show (SiriusXM):  Listen to the interview. Skeptic Science Salon...
Do You Have Free Will?

Do You Have Free Will?

Free will only makes sense in terms of relative degrees of mental flexibility. Mental disorder, itself a matter of degree, constrains this flexibility. No brain is entirely “free.”