The ages-long debate about free will has a new champion in Stanford professor Robert Sapolsky and surprising new connections to our politics, writes Ryan Sanders. Michael Hogue You didn’t choose to ...

After studying humans and other primates for 40 years, Stanford neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky has concluded that many factors beyond our control influence our choices and behaviors, leaving free will ...

A review of Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will. By Robert M. Sapolsky. Penguin Press. 528 pp. $32. Free will, Robert Sapolsky (professor of biology and neurology at Stanford University, ...

If we don’t have free will, we’ve built our society on a powerful myth. At home and work, in school, and when spending time with friends, people get rewarded and punished for their choices. In the ...

The release of Determined, a new book by renowned Stanford professor of primate behavior and neuroscience Robert M. Sapolsky, has catapulted him into the middle of an ancient debate: whether humans ...

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The takeaway of Robert Sapolsky’s Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will is basically the same as that espoused by those Snickers commercials: You’re not you when you’re hungry. Except ...