We are continuing our commentary into Dennett and Carroll’s second hour. They discuss zombies and free will, among other things. … More
Category: Free will
Daniel Dennett on Sean Carroll’s podcast: Minds, Patterns, and the Scientific Image
Who’s your favorite living philosopher? For physicist Sean Carroll, it’s Dan Dennett. And why not? Dennett is committed to a … More
Free Will, an essay by Jenann Ismael
Philosophy is at its best when it is digging around at corners in our world-view that we don’t understand, forcing … More
Scanlon at Berkeley, Part III. Learning from Psychopaths.
Tim Scanlon’s final topic during his series of Townsend lectures at UC Berkeley was “Learning from Psychopaths”. This was … More
Free Will and Benjamin Libet, part III, Epiphenomenalism
Here’s what we have so far. Neurobiology seems to make free will impossible, even if full proof of a causal … More
Free Will and Benjamin Libet, part II
In the 1980s, Benjamin Libet ran a series of experiments in neurophysiology which seemed to show that the brain makes … More
Free Will and Benjamin Libet, part I
Do we have free will? Do we need it? What in the world is free will anyway? A few thoughts … More
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