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Sapolsky is the John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor at Stanford University, holding joint appointments in several departments, including Biological Sciences, Neurology & Neurological Sciences, and Neurosurgery.
As undergrads at Harvard, he and a friend ran a lecture series in their dorm called “The Ethics of Free Will and Determinism,” where they’d entice academic stars such as Noam Chomsky and B.F. Skinner to speak, then spend hours arguing about what they had heard.
May 8, 2017 · Most recently, Sapolsky has been reflecting on the origins of human behavior, starting deep in the brain moments before we act and working his way millions of years back to the evolutionary pressures on our prehistoric ancestors’ decisions, with stops along the way to consider how hormones, brain development and social structures shape our behav...
Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will is a 2023 nonfiction book by American neuroendocrinology researcher Robert Sapolsky concerning the neurological evidence for or against free will.
Jan 17, 2024 · The graduates who were the first in their family to finish high school. The ones whose immigrant parents sit there glowing, their saris, dashikis, barongs broadcasting that their pride in the present isn’t at the cost of pride in their past.
Feb 11, 1978 · When he goes on tour with the Met this spring, he will fly to Atlanta or Cleveland or Houston, or wherever the other cities are, sing a performance, and then fly right back ;,o he won't...
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Dec 14, 2023 · Paul Rand: Sapolsky hasn’t believed in free will since he was a teenager, but the idea to finally write a research-based book on the subject came to him at an unlikely moment. Robert Sapolsky: This was at my son’s college graduation sitting there and you’re proud as hell and you can just feel the waves of pride coming off of all these ...
