No.  There was once a powerful argument against free will based on the supposed “determinism” of the laws of physics, but this determinism was overthrown by quantum mechanics in the […]

This has not even been shown to be true of non-human animals.  In fact, some eminent contemporary philosophers have argued that consciousness (which presumably many animals possess) is not explainable […]

In answering this question it is important to recognize that we have no evidence for life other than what is present on the Earth. We do not know of any […]

The first thing to be said is that the importance or value of something is not always, or even usually, determined by its physical dimensions.  Our most treasured possession is […]