In A Dialogue on Free Will and Science, renowned philosopher Alfred Mele explores the experiments in neuroscience
and psychology that have been said to pose the greatest challenges to free will. He uses an imagined dialogue among
several characters to make what is typically a complex topic more accessible and engaging for students. Guided
by the question "How much power do these scientific challenges have?", the characters first consider
what having free will means and then react to well-known experiments that question its existence, including work
by Libet and Milgram and the bystander, dime, and Stanford prison experiments. Their discussions show how useful
philosophical methods can be in assessing and interpreting scientific findings, thereby revealing certain weaknesses
in these scientific challenges.