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Batman finds his bat. (Megan Garber) At the base of a craggy hill in the middle of Central Park, under one of those rocky overpasses you're not supposed to pass over after dark, a waterfall settles into a shallow stream. The stream smells. Like...

The widespread assertion that the world would be better off without religion is a reasonable hypothesis. Yet data suggest that skeptics should attach no more than a modest level of probability to it. If you Googled the question constituting the title...

Jonathan Haidt of New York University and author of The Righteous Mind talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his book, the nature of human nature, and how our brain affects our morality and politics. Haidt argues that reason often serves our emotions...

by Kai MacDonald, MD, and Katherine Pappas, BA Dr. MacDonald and Ms. Pappas are with UC San Diego Psychiatry, San Diego, CA, USA Innov Clin Neurosci. 2016;13(3–4):13–22 Funding: Dr. MacDonald’s work is sponsored in part by the Goodenough Neuroscience...

by Gregg D. Caruso [This two-part essay was inspired by the author’s TEDx talk on the same topic, which can be viewed here.] [1] I. Addressing Pragmatic Concerns with Free Will Skepticism Let me begin with the concern that giving up free will belief...