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Free Will and the Problem Paradigm: Profiles in Complexity

My apologies in not returning to my previous post on “Gloaters and Brooders”—and to this loose series of posts, which I’m calling “Profiles in Complexity”—earlier. The end of the semester is always a challenging time, but this year “challenging” really fails to describe the exhaustion of a year-plus of constant adaptation and anxiety. I am especially regretful about not returning to the post because it received a number of exceptionally insightful and probing comments. I’ll start, then, by responding here, rather than in the comments section. In the first comment, Louis responded to my argument that Ira Katznelson made a Read more