Better Will: A Critique of Sam Harris’s Free Will

by Magnus Vinding

Better Will offers a critique of Sam Harris’s Free Will (2012), challenging Harris's one-sided and overly limiting portrayal of human agency. Vinding argues that Harris downplays our abilities to understand ourselves, to reshape our intentions, and to direct our actions, leading to an inaccurate view of our capacities and agency. We have reason to adopt a more accurate view, and to cultivate and act on a better will.

19 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 5, 2025

About the author

Magnus Vinding is the author of Speciesism: Why It Is Wrong and the Implications of Rejecting It (2015), Reflections on Intelligence (2016), You Are Them (2017), Effective Altruism: How Can We Best Help Others? (2018), Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications (2020), Reasoned Politics (2022), Essays on Suffering-Focused Ethics (2022), and Essays on UFOs and Related Conjectures (2024).

His next book will be Compassionate Purpose: Personal Inspiration for a Better World.