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So one scientist studies against his will for decades to conclude that nobody has free will. Scientific Calvinism?

• rhelz 3y ago
  I'm glad you brought up the calvinism angle. The first book ever written in America which the Europeans took seriously is Johnathan Edward's book 'Freedom of the Will' (which argued there is no such thing.) It was just the next step in an already ages-long battle. The battle has been translated--along with almost all our explanations of anything--from a theological to a scientific key. But it's the same battle, and is still a theological battle: Scientific results are one thing, but interpreting what those results mean to the human mind is inevitably a hermeneutical, not a scientific, enterprise.