I propose and defend a surprisingly simple yet useful analysis of existence, according to which existence is a relation between a thing and a set: a thing x bears the relation of existence to a set S if and only if x is a member of S. This simple set-theoretic analysis of existence demystifies existence and is powerful and flexible enough to serve important theoretical purposes.
The debate over whether free will and determinism are compatible is controversial, and produces wide scholarly discussion. This paper argues that recent studies in experimental philosophy suggest that people are in fact "natural compatibilists". To support this claim, it surveys the experimental literature bearing directly (section 1) or indirectly (section 2) upon this issue, before pointing to three possible limitations of this claim (section 3). However, notwithstanding these limitations, the investigation concludes that the existing empirical evidence seems to support the view that most people have compatibilist intuitions.