Scotty Hendricks

Scotty Hendricks

Contributing Writer

scotty hendricks

Scotty Hendricks is a graduate student and long-time contributor to Big Think. He resides in Chicago.

You might think philosophy is a boy's club. We are here to correct that misconception. 
Does a good deed "pay off" a bad deed? A lot of people view their actions this way, says Scotty Hendricks. 
How do great ideas happen at the workplace? Often when good workers are left alone. 
Stoicism and Buddhism are two of the oldest, and well known, schools of thought in the world. Would Marcus Aurelius, a famous Roman stoic, be a Buddhist today?
Anti-vaxers have some questions about vaccine safety, here we give the answers.
At some point in life, you've probably asked yourself how in-control of your own actions you are. Could you have stopped yourself from eating that extra morsel? In other words, do you have free will?