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imental and mathematical evidence to back it up. In the 20th century, the new science of psychology also seemed to undermine the idea of free will: Freud's theory of unconscious drives suggested that the causes of some of our actions are not what we think they are. And then along came neuroscience,

of everyday life—considering our interactions with others, for example—does not in itself provide the knock- down demonstration of free will that Dr Johnson would have liked. But it is at least a good beginning on't. Anthony Gottlieb is a contributor to the New Yorker, a former executive editor of The

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LIGENT LIFE magazine, March/April 2012) On the evening of October 10th 1769, in one of his typically curt dismissals of a philosophical problem, Dr Johnson silenced Boswell, who wanted to talk about fate and free will, by exclaiming: "Sir...we know our will is free, and there's an end on't." Nearly tw