Does God really exist? This is a question that has stirred the human heart for centuries, crossing cultures, philosophies, and faiths. In today’s world, the debate is as alive as ever, with science, ...

This is the third in a series of posts on my book, The Four Realms of Existence. Read parts one and two. Source: Harvard University Press/Used with permission Human beings can be characterized as a ...

Agency alone isn’t enough for free will. A self-driving car has a sophisticated form of agency, but no free will. What is needed for free will is creative agency: the capacity of an agent to create ...

What I do is influenced by external events, not controlled by them. For instance, I can decide what to do based on a coin toss and no amount of physics could predict how that will turn out. If I ...