Witten in 2003, unedited The highly discussed free will debate is based on our folk psychological understanding of responsibility. It is a popular notion that a person who is operating without free will cannot be held responsible for their actions. Since morality is a corner stone of our society, adapting a philosophy such as determinism [...]

Written in 2003, unedited The Free Will debate usually gets broken down to the question, “is determinism compatible with free will?” The answer to this question would seem to definitively answer many questions about our free will. If they are compatible, determinism will be able to live happily along side free will, which would detour [...]

It’s human nature to be altruistic, that is to say that we have a deep desire to do good for one another, and that evolution would seem to go against this. Evolution, one would think, would encourage self-preservation and since it seems to be the case for some people that their natural inclination is help [...]

If God is the creator of all things, and morality is a thing, then God created morality. If God created morality then, to God, morality is arbitrary. There is nothing for God to base morality upon, because he created every thing. Morality, to God, is based on nothing.