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Free Will and Agency

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Denise Almeida
Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment
2
Quentin Welniarz
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
3
Kate Vredenburgh
Scientific Methods (United States)
4
Maximilian Kiener
Universität Hamburg
5
Nora Hertz
University of Freiburg
6
Megan Fritts
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
7
Dick Timmer
Utrecht University
8
Will Fleisher
Georgetown University
9
Daniel Fogal
New York University
10
Jonathan Gingerich
Rutgers Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

Rising Stars Papers

1
Epistemic practices: A unified account of epistemic and zetetic normativity
Noûs|2024
13 cit.
2
<scp>AI</scp> and Responsibility: No Gap, but Abundance
Journal of Applied Philosophy|2024
12 cit.
3
Strict Moral Answerability
Ethics|2024
10 cit.
4
Transparency and Explainability for Public Policy
LSE Public Policy Review|2024
9 cit.
5
The Value of Disagreement in AI Design, Evaluation, and Alignment
Unknown Journal|2025
6 cit.
6
Responsibility and Accountability in an Algorithmic Society
Philosophy & Technology|2025
6 cit.
7
Limitarianism, Upper Limits, and Minimal Thresholds
Res Publica|2024
5 cit.
8
The human right to freedom of thought—operationalising a disputed right in the context of neurotechnologies
Human Rights Law Review|2025
3 cit.
9
Writing Requirements, Student Assessment, and Plagiarism in Indian Law Schools
SSRN Electronic Journal|2025
3 cit.
10
The Political Morality of Nudges in Healthcare
SSRN Electronic Journal|2025
2 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Giulio Mecacci
Radboud University Nijmegen
2
Toby Ord
University of Oxford
3
Mihailis Diamantis
University of Iowa
4
Jilles Smids
Erasmus MC
5
Olle Risberg
Uppsala University
6
Anatole Lecuyer
Centre Inria de l'Université de Rennes
7
John Schwenkler
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
8
Bradford Cokelet
University of Kansas
9
Maximilian Alexander Wächter
Osnabrück University
10
Janeen D. Loehr
University of Saskatchewan

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Causal Accounts of Harming
KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)|2022
27 cit.
2
Plural harm: plural problems
Philosophical Studies|2023
17 cit.
3
Ethics and the Question of What to Do
Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy|2023
13 cit.
4
A Simple Analysis of Harm
Ergo an Open Access Journal of Philosophy|2023
13 cit.
5
The auditory P2 differentiates self- from partner-produced sounds during joint action: Contributions of self-specific attenuation and temporal orienting of attention
Neuropsychologia|2023
12 cit.
6
Not just in sync: Relations between partners’ actions influence the sense of joint agency during joint action
Consciousness and Cognition|2023
11 cit.
7
Employers have a Duty of Beneficence to Design for Meaningful Work: A General Argument and Logistics Warehouses as a Case Study
The Journal of Ethics|2023
11 cit.
8
Competitive virtue ethics and narrow morality
Philosophical Studies|2023
11 cit.
9
Alpha oscillations related to self-other integration and distinction during live orchestral performance: A naturalistic case study
Psychology of Music|2022
9 cit.
10
Human–machine coordination in mixed traffic as a problem of Meaningful Human Control
AI & Society|2023
9 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Patrick Haggard
University College London
2
Chris Frith
University of London
3
Cass R. Sunstein
Harvard University
4
Jean Decety
University of Chicago
5
Marcel Braß
Ghent University
6
Rebecca Saxe
McGovern Institute for Brain Research
7
Florian Waszak
Université Paris Cité
8
Joshua Knobe
Stanford University
9
H. Henrik Ehrsson
Karolinska Institutet
10
Kathleen D. Vohs
University of Minnesota

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Bad is Stronger than Good
Review of General Psychology|2001
7.4k cit.
2
Empathy for Pain Involves the Affective but not Sensory Components of Pain
Science|2004
3.9k cit.
3
Does High Self-Esteem Cause Better Performance, Interpersonal Success, Happiness, or Healthier Lifestyles?
Gothic.net|2003
3.8k cit.
4
Navigation-related structural change in the hippocampi of taxi drivers
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2000
3.2k cit.
5
People thinking about thinking peopleThe role of the temporo-parietal junction in “theory of mind”
NeuroImage|2003
2.4k cit.
6
Development and neurophysiology of mentalizing
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences|2003
2.3k cit.
7
Action Observation and Acquired Motor Skills: An fMRI Study with Expert Dancers
Cerebral Cortex|2004
2k cit.
8
Libertarian Paternalism
American Economic Review|2003
1.8k cit.
9
Empathic neural responses are modulated by the perceived fairness of others
Nature|2006
1.7k cit.
10
Dopamine-dependent prediction errors underpin reward-seeking behaviour in humans
Nature|2006
1.6k cit.

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