Science & Technology

Bad News for Free Will

The Libet Experiments showed we have no control over our actions. Or did they? Alfred Mele still managed to write a critique of them

Richard Dawkins collected writing reviewed by Mark Pagel

Stephen Jay Gould's last work reviewed by Jonathan Rée

Marilyn Mason views the planet

John Maddox on Matt Ridley's Nature via Nurture and PD Smith's Einstein

Dylan Evans on Antonio Damasio's Spinoza

John Maddox on a poor little guy called Newton

Brian Winston says that new technology will never make us free

Raymond Tallis revisits the big question: what makes humans special?

Mark Pagel learns from an old master