The Free Will Show: Recent Episodes
Taylor Cyr and Matt Flummer
Do any of us really have free will? What does it mean to have free will, anyway? Is free will compatible with determinism? Hasn’t science disproved free will? How could we have free will if God exists and foreknows everything that we will ever do? The Free Will Show provides a beginner-friendly introduction to the topic of free will while at the same time exposing listeners to cutting-edge developments on the topic. Hosted by a couple of philosophers, Taylor Cyr and Matt Flummer, The Free Will Show features interviews with guests on a diverse array of issues relating to free will, including issues in science and theology. thefreewillshow.com
In this episode, we talk Mikayla Kelley about the distinction between basic and nonbasic action and different accounts of nonbasic action.
Mikayla's website: https://www.mikaylakelley.com/
Mikayla's paper: How to Perform a Nonbasic Action
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In this episode, we talk with Alison Fernandes about cases of time travel and how knowledge constrains deliberation.
Alison's website: http://www.alisonfernandes.net/
Alison's paper, "Freedom, Self-Prediction, and the Possibility of Time Travel": https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11098-018-1181-9
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In this episode, we talk with Jeffrey Koperski about whether physics rules out libertarian free will.
Jeff's website: https://appsc2.svsu.edu/lookup/bio/koperski
Jeff's book: Physics and Free Will: The Science of Libertarian Freedom
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In this episode, we talk with Joshua Shepherd about the structure of agency and creative intelligence.
Josh's website: https://sites.google.com/site/shepherdphilosophy/home?authuser=0
Josh's Book: The Shape of Agency
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In this episode, we talk with Marcus Arvan about how the simulation hypothesis explains various philosophical phenomena, including free will.
Marcus's website: https://www.marcusarvan.net/
Marcus's paper: A New Theory of Free Will
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In this episode, we talk with Barbara Vetter about abilities and how we come to know what abilities we have.
Barbara's website: http://barbaravetter.de/
Barbara's first book, Potentiality: From Dispositions to Modality: https://academic.oup.com/book/26364?login=false
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In this episode, we talk with Huzeyfe Demirtas about responsibility for consequences and how that relates to autonomous AI systems.
Huzeyfe's Website: https://www.huzeyfedemirtas.com/
Huzeyfe's paper, "Against the Degree-Scope Response to Moral Luck, or A Farewell to Responsibility for Consequences": https://philpapers.org/rec/DEMATD-7
Huzeyfe's paper, "AI Responsibility Gap: Not New, Inevitable, Unproblematic": https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-024-09814-1
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In this episode, we talk with Shaun Nichols about folk beliefs about determinism and causal explanation.
Shaun's website: https://sites.google.com/view/shaunbnichols/home
Shaun's book, Bound: Essays on Free Will and Responsibility: https://academic.oup.com/book/9296
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In this episode, we talk with Andre Rusavuk about the problem of divine luck.
Andre's website: https://philpeople.org/profiles/andre-rusavuk
Andre's paper, "Divine Actions and the Challenge of Present Luck": https://place.asburyseminary.edu/faithandphilosophy/vol40/iss3/1/
Andre's paper, "The Luckiest of All Possible Beings: Divine Perfections and Constitutive Luck": https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11841-023-00960-5
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This episode starts a new series of the podcast that won’t have any particular guiding theme but instead looks at various topics that scholars are working on. In this episode, we talk with Nathan Bray and Stephen Kershnar about whether God is morally responsible.
Nathan's Website: https://philpeople.org/profiles/nathan-bray-1
Stephen's Website: https://philpeople.org/profiles/stephen-kershnar
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In this episode, we talk with Thomas Williams about John Duns Scotus and his views on free will and how they differ from Anselm's and Aquinas's views.
Thomas's website: https://www.profthomaswilliams.com/
Thomas's chapter on Scotus's views of free will can be found in the Routledge Companion to Free Will
Thomas also wrote the SEP article: John Duns Scotus
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In this episode, we talk with Harm Goris about Thomas Aquinas’s views of free will and human agency.
Harm's website: https://tilburguniversity.academia.edu/HarmGoris
Harm's chapter on Aquinas can be found in the Routledge Companion to Free Will.
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In this episode, we talk with Sandra Visser about Anselm of Canterbury and his views on human and divine freedom.
Sandra's website: https://hope.edu/directory/people/visser-sandra/index.html
Sandra's chapter on Anselm in the Routledge Companion to Free Will: https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Free-Will/Timpe-Griffith-Levy/p/book/9780367869977
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In this episode, we talk with Jon McGinnis about Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) and his views about divine and human agency.
Jon's website: https://www.medieval.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/jon-mcginnis
Jon's book, Avicenna: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/avicenna-9780195331479?cc=us⟨=en&
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In this episode, we talk with John Marenbon about free will and foreknowledge in Boethius's most famous work, the Consolation of Philosophy.
John's PhilPeople profile: https://philpeople.org/profiles/john-marenbon
John's Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Boethius: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/boethius/
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In this episode, we talk with Jesse Coeuenhoven about Augustine’s views on free will, moral responsibility, and predestination.
Jesse's website: https://www1.villanova.edu/university/liberal-arts-sciences/programs/theology/faculty/biodetail.html?mail=jesse.couenhoven@villanova.edu&xsl=bio_long
Jesse's book: Striken by Sin, Cured by Christ: Agency, Necessity, and Culpability in Augustinian Theology
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In this episode, we talk with Anna Viatkina about Plotinus’s views on freedom and moral responsibility and how they relate to ancient Stoic and contemporary rational abilities views.
Anna's Google Scholar page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KJmxq2gAAAAJ&hl=ru
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In this episode, we talk with Tim O'Keefe about Epicurean and Stoic views of freedom and determinism.
Tim's website: https://philpeople.org/profiles/tim-o-keefe
Tim's book, Epicurus on Freedom: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/epicurus-on-freedom/F5058A8C45DB77CE70CA0BF56A3116F9
Tim's entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on "Ancient Theories of Freedom and Determinism": https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freedom-ancient/
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In this episode, we talk with Susan Sauvé Meyer about Aristotle’s views on moral responsibility, especially his conception of voluntariness.
Susan's website: https://philosophy.sas.upenn.edu/people/susan-sauv%C3%A9-meyer
Susan's book: How to Flourish: An Ancient Guide to Living Well
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In this episode, we talk with Eric Brown about Plato’s views on freedom, moral psychology, and responsibility.
Eric's website: https://sites.google.com/view/ericbrownphilosophy/home
Eric’s entry on Plato’s Republic in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato-ethics-politics/
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In this episode, we talk with Pamela Hieronymi about P. F. Strawson’s classic paper “Freedom and Resentment,” his ethical naturalism, and her recent Gifford Lectures.
Pamela's website: https://hieronymi.humspace.ucla.edu/
Pamela's book: Freedom, Resentment, and the Metaphysics of Morals
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In this episode we talk with Chandra Sripada about the distortion model of addiction and how it is different from the standard, desire based model.
Chandra's website: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sripada/
Chandra's paper: Impaired control in addiction involves cognitive distortions and unreliable self-control, not compulsive desires and overwhelmed self-control
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In this episode, we talk with Elinor Mason about her work on taking responsibility and how it differs from other ways of being blameworthy.
Elinore's website: https://sites.google.com/site/elinormasonphilosophy/home
Elinore's book: Ways to Be Blameworthy
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In this episode, we talk with Wayne Wu about his work on automaticity, attention, and memory in the philosophy of action.
Wayne's website: https://www.waynewu.net/
Wayne's book, Movements of the Mind: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/movements-of-the-mind-9780192866899
Wayne's new book, Attention: https://www.routledge.com/Attention/Wu/p/book/9781032121772
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In this episode we talk to Kelly McCormick about the problem of blame and her reasons for thinking that we shouldn’t eliminate blame from our lives.
Kelly's website: https://addran.tcu.edu/view/kelly-mccormick
Kelly's book: The Problem of Blame
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In this episode, we talk with Eddy Nahmias about the experimental philosophy of free will and his own compatibilist view.
Eddy's Website: https://eddynahmias.com/
Eddy's paper (with Nadelhoffer and Morris): Is Incompatibilism Intuitive?
Eddy's paper with Oisin Deery: Why the Manipulation Argument Fails: Determinism Does Not Entail Perfect Prediction
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In this episode, we talk with Neal Tognazzini about time travel and free will as well as some non-standard threats to free will from other areas of metaphysics.
Neal's website: https://sites.google.com/view/neal-tognazzini/home?authuser=0
Neal's paper (with Andrew Law), "Free Will and Two Local Determinisms": https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10670-018-9992-9
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In this episode, we talk with Matt King about various kinds of responsibility and how they all share in what he calls the basic responsibility relation.
Matt's website: https://dr-matt-king.squarespace.com/
Matt's book: Simply Responsible
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In this episode, we talk with Sabrina Little about a puzzle about free will in the context of moral education.
Sabrina's website: https://sabrinalittle.com/
Sabrina's book: The Examined Run
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In this episode, we talk with Helen Steward about her view that agency itself, not just free agency, is incompatible with determinism.
Helen's website: https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/philosophy/staff/1167/professor-helen-steward-fba
Helen's book: A Metaphysics for Freedom
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In this episode, we talk with Leigh Vicens about what she calls the puzzle of sin and free will in Christianity. We consider how compatibilists, libertarians, and free will skeptics might respond to the puzzle.
Leigh's website: https://www.augie.edu/directory/leigh-vicens-phd-mdiv-ma
Leigh's book: Christianity and the Problem of Free Will
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In this episode we talk with Benjamin Matheson about various problems concerning both compatibilist and libertarian free will in heaven.
Benjamin's website: https://www.benjaminmatheson.com/
Benjamin's paper: Tracing and Heavenly Freedom
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In this episode, we talk with Tom Ward about divine free will, focusing on Duns Scotus's view of divine free will and the act of creation.
Tom's website: https://www.thomasmward.com/
Tom's book, Ordered by Love: An Introduction to John Duns Scotus: https://angelicopress.com/products/ordered-by-love?srsltid=AfmBOoo6x3lkxblphcS_BASqIQmPqR6wr6ZO6objsyEtwLdgGrTyl5G9
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In this episode, we talk with Kevin Timpe about grace and free will, focusing on a puzzle that arises for the Christian view of divine grace towards fallen human beings.
Kevin's website: https://kevintimpe.com/
Kevin's book: Free Will in Philosophical Theology
Kevin's papers:
Grace and Controlling What We Do Not Cause
Cooperative Grace, Cooperative Agency
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In this episode we talk with John Bishop and Ken Perszyk about the euteleological understanding of theism, which is an alternative to personal theism.
John's website: https://profiles.auckland.ac.nz/jc-bishop
Ken's website: https://profiles.waikato.ac.nz/ken.perszyk
John and Ken's book: God, Purpose, and Reality
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In this episode, we talk with Scott Davison about petitionary prayer. We begin with what petitionary prayer is, and then we discuss challenges to petitionary prayer from divine free will.
Scott's website: https://scottdavison.yourwebsitespace.com/
Scott's books: God and Prayer
Petitionary Prayer
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In this episode, we talk with Alan Rhoda about the strengths and weaknesses of various models of divine providence and free will.
Alan's website: http://www.alanrhoda.net/
Alan's book, Open Theism: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/open-theism/58D1856058A7BAED3BD758245927FADB
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In this episode, we talk with Gloria Frost about various views of divine causation of creaturely action, focusing on three views from the medieval period.
Gloria's website: https://gloriafrost.org/
Gloria's book, Aquinas on Efficient Causation and Causal Powers: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/aquinas-on-efficient-causation-and-causal-powers/582E9302CDF482489AC0CDE3A3EE90B0
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In this episode, we talk with Jason Turner about whether certain kinds of compatibilists can use the free will defense in response to the problem of evil.
Jason's website: https://philosophy.arizona.edu/person/jason-turner
Jason's paper, "Compatibilism and the Free Will Defense": https://place.asburyseminary.edu/faithandphilosophy/vol30/iss2/1/
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This ninth season of the podcast will explore topics on free will and theology. In this episode, we talk with Dan Speak about free will and the problem of evil.
Dan's website: https://bellarmine.lmu.edu/philosophy/faculty/?expert=daniel.speak
Dan's book, The Problem of Evil: https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=the-problem-of-evil--9780745664064
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In this episode, we talk with Anneli Jefferson about instrumentalist accounts of moral responsibility and some challenges for the view, including issues related to blaming the dead.
Anneli's website: https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/jeffersona1
Anneli's paper, "Instrumentalism about Moral Responsibility Revisited": https://academic.oup.com/pq/article/69/276/555/5266881?login=false
Anneli's paper, "Blaming the Dead": https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ejop.12947
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In this episode, we talk with Josh May about issues in neuroethics and the law and also about mental disorders and moral responsibility.
Josh's website: https://www.joshdmay.com/
Josh's book, Neuroethics: Agency in the Age of Brain Sciecne: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/neuroethics-9780197648094?cc=us⟨=en&
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In this episode, we talk with Meghan Griffith about developing a narrative capacity and how it relates to becoming morally responsible.
Megan's website: https://www.davidson.edu/people/meghan-griffith
Megan's paper, "Narrative Capacity and Moral Responsibility": https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/social-philosophy-and-policy/article/abs/narrative-capacity-and-moral-responsibility/B1685573B9DFCAEF6D0B22EA54222D46
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Cohosts Taylor Cyr and Matt Flummer describe their new book How Free Are We? Conversations from the Free Will Show.
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In this episode we talk with Justin Coates about the nature of ambivalence and arguments for and against it.
Justin's website: https://djustincoates.com/index.html
Justin's book, In Praise of Ambivalence: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/in-praise-of-ambivalence-9780197652398?q=justin%20coates⟨=en&cc=us#
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In this episode, we talk with Tommie Shelby about whether and when states lack the standing to punish. We also discuss Tommie's book on prison abolitionism, which makes the case for prison reform without accepting that incarceration is illegitimate.
Tommie's website: https://www.tommieshelby.com/
Tommie's book, The Idea of Prison Abolition: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691229751/the-idea-of-prison-abolition
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In this episode, we talk with Stephanie Collins and Niels de Haan about whether structuralism or historicism best accounts for group responsibility.
Stephanie's website: https://stephaniecollins.xyz/
Niels's website: https://sites.google.com/view/niels-de-haan/homepage
Their paper, "Group Responsibility and Historicism": https://academic.oup.com/pq/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pq/pqad104/7329479
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In this episode, we talk with Joseph Metz about moral luck and responsibility for omissions.
Joe's website: https://www.joseph-metz.com/home
Joe's paper, “Omissions, Moral Luck, and Minding the (Epistemic) Gap”: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/canadian-journal-of-philosophy/article/omissions-moral-luck-and-minding-the-epistemic-gap/F95FD50121A509FB66C3691D49D91B03
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In this episode, we talk with Mihailis Diamantis about the nature of corporations and some similarities between corporate and individual criminal responsibility.
Mihailis's website: https://law.uiowa.edu/people/mihailis-diamantis
Mihailis's paper, "Corporate Criminal Minds": https://ndlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/NDL509.pdf
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In this episode, we talk with Raff Donelson about several different topics, including his response to free will skepticism, whether its okay to make people responsible to make reparations for historical injustices, and his recent work on medieval criminal trials involving non-human animals.
Raff's website: https://www.raffdonelson.com/
Raff's paper, "Reparation, Responsibility, and Formalism: A Reply to Carnes": https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3717192
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In this episode, we talk with Justin Capes about the principle of alternative possibilities and his version of the flicker of freedom response to Frankfurt cases.
Justin's website: https://www.justincapes.com/
Justin's book, Moral Responsibility and the Flicker of Freedom: https://academic.oup.com/book/46725
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In this episode, we talk with Simone Gubler about forgiveness, its value, and some potential problems with institutional attempts to make forgiveness happen.
Simone's website: https://simonegubler.com/
Simone's paper, "Recent Work in Forgiveness": https://academic.oup.com/analysis/article-abstract/82/4/738/6908773?redirectedFrom=fulltext
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In this episode, we talk with Stephen Morse about the nature of addiction and about the moral and criminal responsibility of people who suffer from addiction.
Stephen's website: https://www.law.upenn.edu/faculty/smorse/
Stephen's book (edited with Adina Roskies), A Primer on Criminal Law and Neuroscience: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-primer-on-criminal-law-and-neuroscience-9780199859177?q=primer%20on%20law%20and%20neuroscience%20morse%20roskies⟨=en&cc=us
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In this episode, we talk with David Shoemaker about his theory of different kinds of moral responsibility and its implications for psychopathy and the law.
David's website: https://sites.google.com/site/dshoemakr/home
David's book, Responsibility from the Margins: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/responsibility-from-the-margins-9780198715672?lang=en&cc=us
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In this episode, we talk with Gideon Yaffe about whether and to what extent children should be held less culpable for breaking the law.
Gideon's website: https://law.yale.edu/gideon-yaffe
Gideon's book, The Age of Culpability: Children and the Age of Criminal Responsibility: https://academic.oup.com/book/8349?login=false
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In this episode, we talk with Saul Smilansky about overpunishment, focusing on the question of whether overpunishing a guilty person is morally worse than punishing an innocent person. We also briefly discuss Saul's work on free will and illusion.
Saul's website: https://www.saulsmilansky.com/
Saul's book, Free Will and Illusion: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/free-will-and-illusion-9780199252596?q=saul%20smilanski%20free%20will⟨=en&cc=us
Saul's paper, "Overpunishment and the Punishment of the Innocent": https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/phib.12235
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In this episode, we talk with Katrina Sifferd about the rehabilitation of criminal offenders and the effects that environments can have on criminal behavior and rehabilitation.
Katrina's website: https://pleasandexcuses.net/
Katrina's paper, "Structural Injustice and Fair Opportunity": https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11572-023-09697-1
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In this episode, we talk with Victor Tadros about moral authority (or standing) and punishment. In particular, we ask about what it would mean for the state to be complicit in the behavior of criminal offenders and how that complicity might affect its standing to punish.
Victor's website: https://vtadros367761169.wordpress.com/
Victor's book, Criminal Responsibility: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/criminal-responsibility-9780199225828
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In this episode, we talk with Craig Agule about some of the philosophical issues related to mens rea requirements in the law and also about the connection between mens rea and free will.
Craig's website: https://craigagule.com/
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In this episode, we talk with Erin Kelly about the main theories of justification for punishment, as well as some challenges for those theories. We also ask her about her work on moving from retributive to restorative justice.
Erin's website: https://erinikelly.com
Erin's book, The Limits of Blame: Rethinking Punishment and Responsibility: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674980778
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This episode starts a new season on free will and the law. In a wide-ranging discussion, Kyle Fritz gives some background for various key issues at the intersection of free will and the law.
Kyle's website: https://kylegfritz.com/
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In this episode, we talk with Robert Wallace about a dilemma for compatibilist views that reductively explain free will in terms of dispositions.
Robert's website: https://www.roberthwallace.com/
Robert's paper, "A Dilemma for Reductive Compatibilism": https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10670-021-00475-w
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In this episode we talk with Nadine Elzein about the public health model for responding to criminal behavior. We ask about reasons for preferring this model (including free will skepticism) as well as some common objections to treating crime like a public health issue.
Nadine's website: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/people/summaries/elzein/
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In this episode we talk with John Maier about what he calls 'options' and how they’re related in other issues in the philosophy of agency.
John's Website: https://www.jmaier.net
John's Book: Options and Agency
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In this episode, we talk with Susan Wolf about her view of free will, which she calls "The Reason View," and how her view has evolved over the years.
Susan's website: https://philosophy.unc.edu/people/susan-wolf/
Susan's book, Freedom within Reason: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/freedom-within-reason-9780195085655?cc=us&lang=en&
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In this episode, we talk with Justin Caouette about a variety of topics that he’s interested in in the free will debate as well as what is at stake in the debate itself.
Justin's Website: http://www.profjustincaouette.com/
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In this episode, we talk with Per-Erik Milam about blameworthiness and forgiveness. Along the way, we talk about two types of view about what forgiveness is.
Per's website: http://www.pererikmilam.com/
Per's chapter discussed in the episode is called "Forgiveness," and it is in the Oxford Handbook of Moral Responsibility: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-moral-responsibility-9780190679309
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In this episode we talk with Megan Fritts about causal and noncausal theories of action explanation and why she prefers a noncausal approach.
Megan's Website: https://sites.google.com/view/meganjfritts/home
Megan's paper: Reasons Explanations as Structural Explanations
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In this episode, we talk with Andrei Buckareff about a kind of soft-line response to the manipulation argument that draws from work within the philosophy of action.
Andrei's website: https://sites.google.com/site/andreibuckareff/
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In this episode, we talk with Oisín Deery about his work on free will as a natural kind. Along the way, we talk about what it feels like to act freely, whether freedom is compatible with determinism, and whether artificial intelligences could have free will.
Oisin's website: https://www.oisindeery.com/
Oisin's book, Naturally Free Action: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/naturally-free-action-9780198789796?cc=ie&lang=de&resultsPerPage=60&sortField=8
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In this episode, we discuss a popular response to Frankfurt cases called the "flicker of freedom" strategy. Our guest is Bradford Stockdale.
Brad's PhilPeople profile: https://philpeople.org/profiles/bradford-stockdale
Brad's paper, "Moral Responsibility, Alternative Possibilities, and Acting on One's Own": https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10892-020-09353-z
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In this episode, we talk with Greg Welty about what compatibilists about freedom and determinism could contribute to the debate about freedom and foreknowledge.
Greg's website: http://www.gregwelty.com/
Greg's book, Why Is There Evil in the World (And So Much Of It)?: https://www.christianfocus.com/products/2741/why-is-there-evil-in
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This is our second of two episodes on open theism. We talk with Patrick Todd about two versions of the view and why he prefers the open future open theist view.
Patrick's website: http://www.patricktodd.co/
Patrick's book, The Open Future: Why Future Contingents Are All False: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-open-future-9780192897916?cc=us&lang=en&
Collection of essays co-edited and co-introduced by Patrick (with John Martin Fischer), Freedom, Fatalism, and Foreknowledge: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/freedom-fatalism-and-foreknowledge-9780199942411?q=patrick%20todd&lang=en&cc=us
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This is our first of two episodes on open theism, the view that we have free will and that it is incompatible with divine foreknowledge. In this episode, we talk with William Hasker about reasons to be an open theist and some potential challenges.
Bill's website: https://www.huntington.edu/meet-the-faculty/william-hasker
Influential book on open theism, to which Bill is a contributor, The Openness of God: https://www.ivpress.com/the-openness-of-god
Bill's book, God, Time and Knowledge: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801485459/god-time-and-knowledge/#bookTabs=1
Bill's book, Providence, Evil and the Openness of God: https://www.routledge.com/Providence-Evil-and-the-Openness-of-God/Hasker/p/book/9780415651103
Symposium on Bill's work: https://ojs.tnkul.pl/index.php/rf/issue/view/1215
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In this episode, we talk with David Hunt about the source-libertarian response to the problem of freedom and foreknowledge, according to which, although causal determinism would rule out moral responsibility, alternative possibilities are not required.
David's website: https://www.whittier.edu/academics/philosophy/david-hunt
David's paper, "On Augustine's Way Out": https://www.pdcnet.org/scholarpdf/show?id=faithphil_1999_0016_0001_0003_0026&pdfname=faithphil_1999_0016_0001_0003_0026.pdf&file_type=pdf
David's coauthored entry (with Linda Zagzebski) in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, "Foreknowledge and Free Will": https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/free-will-foreknowledge/
David's interviews on Closer to Truth: https://www.closertotruth.com/contributor/david-hunt/profile
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This episode is the second in a two-part series on the dependence response to the problem of freedom and foreknowledge. In this episode, we talk with Philip Swenson about his version of the dependence response, whether Molinists can accept the response, and more.
Philip's website: https://sites.google.com/site/philipjswenson/home
Philip's paper, "Ability, Foreknowledge, and Explanatory Dependence": https://philpapers.org/archive/SWEAFA.pdf
Another interview with Philip on his dilemma for Molinism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE0fxXY3hjE
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This episode is the first in a two-part series on the dependence response to the problem of freedom and foreknowledge. In this episode, we talk with Trenton Merricks about truth, dependence, foreknowledge, and freedom.
Trenton's website: https://www.trentonmerricks.com/
Trenton's paper, "Truth and Freedom": https://www.trentonmerricks.com/public/publications/Truth-and-Freedom.pdf
Trenton's paper, "Foreknowledge and Freedom": https://www.trentonmerricks.com/public/publications/Merricks-F-and-F-PR.pdf
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In this episode, we talk with William Lane Craig about Molinism, a view about the compatibility of divine providence and human free will that is sometimes brought up in response to the challenge of divine foreknowledge.
Bill's website: https://www.reasonablefaith.org/
Bill's book, The Only Wise God: https://wipfandstock.com/9781579103163/the-only-wise-god/
Bill's book, Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom:
https://brill.com/view/title/2069?language=en
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In this episode, we talk with Amy Seymour about Ockhamist solution to the problem of freedom and foreknowledge. Along the way, we discuss various related issues in the philosophy of time.
Amy's website: https://philpeople.org/profiles/amy-seymour-1
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In this episode, we talk with Katherin Rogers about the Boethian response to the problem of freedom and foreknowledge, according to which God’s timelessness helps to solve the problem.
Kate's website: https://www.udel.edu/faculty-staff/experts/katherin-rogers/
Kate's recent book, The Experimental Approach to Free Will: https://www.routledge.com/The-Experimental-Approach-to-Free-Will-Freedom-in-the-Laboratory/Rogers/p/book/9781032194028
Kate's book, Freedom and Self Creation: Anselmian Libertarianism: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/freedom-and-self-creation-9780198743972?cc=us⟨=en&
Kate's book, Anselm on Freedom: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/anselm-on-freedom-9780199231676?cc=us⟨=en&
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This episode is the first in a new season on the puzzle of divine foreknowledge and human free will. Our guest, Simon Kittle, introduces the problem of freedom and foreknowledge and gives an overview of the responses to this problem that we’ll cover in more detail in the remaining episodes of this season.
Simon's website: https://www.simonkittle.com/
Simon's book (with Leigh Vicens), God and Human Freedom: https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/abs/god-and-human-freedom/D0EE63BB14A6F9C4F85DB3CFE347E891
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In this bonus episode, we talk with Garrett Pendergraft about his new book, Free Will and Human Agency: 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Though Experiments. We’ll be back next month with season 5, which focuses on the problem of human freedom and divine foreknowledge.
Garrett's website: https://seaver.pepperdine.edu/academics/faculty/garrett-pendergraft/
Garrett's book: https://www.routledge.com/Free-Will-and-Human-Agency-50-Puzzles-Paradoxes-and-Thought-Experiments/Pendergraft/p/book/9780367641948 Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshow
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In this episode, we talk with Marcela Herdova about moral luck and transformative experiences—the kind of experiences that fundamentally change who we are.
Marcela's website: https://marcelaherdova.com/
Marcela's paper, "Transformative Moral Luck": https://www.pdcnet.org/msp/content/msp_2019_0043_0162_0180
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In this episode, we talk with Santiago Amaya about an argument for the conclusion that "free will" is a vague term. We also talk about what Santiago thinks are some of the implications of this conclusion for the free will debate.
Santiago's PhilPeople profile: https://philpeople.org/profiles/santiago-amaya
Santiago's podcast, "Free Will Matters": https://freewill.uniandes.edu.co/podcast/
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In this episode, we talk with John Stigall about omissions and Frankfurt cases. John defends the view that, while we can be morally responsible for performing positive actions even if we lack the ability to do otherwise, moral responsibility for omissions requires the ability to do otherwise.
John's website: https://philpeople.org/profiles/john-stigall
John's article, "Causation, Norms, and Omissions: A Study of Causal Judgments (with Randolph Clarke, Joshua Shepherd, Robyn Repko Waller, and Chris Zarpentine): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09515089.2013.815099
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In this episode, we talk with Sofia Jeppsson about why we should not take mental illness to function as an exemption from moral responsibility and why we shouldn’t take what P. F. Strawson called the “objective stance” towards those who are mentally ill.
Sofia's departmental website: https://www.umu.se/en/staff/sofia-jeppsson/
Sofia's personal website: https://www.sofiajeppsson.com/
Sofia's article, "Psychosis and Intelligibility": https://muse.jhu.edu/article/806103
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In this episode, we talk with Gabriel De Marco about various manipulation cases and different ways philosophers have responded to them. We also talk about real-life cases of interventions that are similar to the manipulations in philosophical thought experiments.
Gabriel's website: https://www.neuroethics.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-gabriel-de-marco?filter_types-688386[]=book,chapter
Gabe's paper, "Nonconsensual Neurocorrectives, Bypassing, and Free Action" (open access): https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11098-021-01740-y
Another of Gabe's papers (the one with the "Matt" case), "Historical Moral Responsibility and Manipulation via Deletion" (open access): https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10670-021-00409-6
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In this episode, we talk with Andrew Latham and Hannah Tierney about their recent collaborative work on manipulation arguments against compatibilism. They offer a novel response to those arguments by drawing from the work of P. F. Strawson.
Andrew's website: https://andrewjlatham.wixsite.com/andrewlatham
Hannah's website: https://www.hannahtierney.com/
Andrew and Hannah's paper, "Defusing Existential and Universal Threats to Compatibilism: A Strawsonian Dilemma for Manipulation Arguments": https://philpapers.org/rec/LATDEA
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In this episode, we talk with Daniel Miller about when and why ignorance functions as an excuse from blameworthiness, and how this is related to a phenomenon called “tracing”.
Dan's website: http://www.danieljamesmiller.com/
Dan's paper, "Reasonable Foreseeability and Blameless Ignorance": https://philpapers.org/archive/MILRFA-3.pdf
Dan's entry on ignorance and blame at 1000-Word Philosophy: https://1000wordphilosophy.com/2019/02/14/ignorance-and-blame/
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In this episode, we talk with Robert Hartman about the problems of free will and moral luck and how they are related to each other.
Bob's website: http://www.robertjhartman.com/
Bob's book, In Defense of Moral Luck: https://www.routledge.com/In-Defense-of-Moral-Luck-Why-Luck-Often-Affects-Praiseworthiness-and-Blameworthiness/Hartman/p/book/9780367372415
Bob's article, "Constitutive Moral Luck and Strawson's Argument for the Impossibility of Moral Responsibility": https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-american-philosophical-association/article/abs/constitutive-moral-luck-and-strawsons-argument-for-the-impossibility-of-moral-responsibility/F20DA7AD595F2D14E2FE2CE3E3F6ED97
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In this episode, we talk with Kristin Mickelson about whether philosophers are using the term “incompatibilism” in different ways and what implications this may have for the free will debate.
Kristin's PhilPeople profile: https://philpeople.org/profiles/kristin-m-mickelson
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This episode kicks off our fourth season, which will feature the work of mostly earlier-career scholars on a range of topics related to free will. Here we interview Andrew Law on the problem of divine foreknowledge and human free will, focusing on the increasingly popular dependence solution to the problem.
Andrew's website: https://andrewlaw91.wixsite.com/website
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In this episode, we talk with philosopher Christian List about a different way of responding to a challenge to free will from physics. Even if determinism is true at the level of physics, free will might still be possible at the higher and independent level of agency.
Christian's website: https://personal.lse.ac.uk/LIST/
Christian's book, Why Free Will Is Real: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674979581
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In this episode, we talk with Jenann Ismael about how our ordinary conception of ourselves as agents who make free decisions is not in conflict with the classical deterministic model of physics. We also discuss how to think about determinism in light of recent advances in physics.
Jenann's website: https://www.jenanni.com/
Jenann's book: How Physics Makes Us Free
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In this episode, we talk with Christian Miller about studies in psychology that seem to show that our actions are more influenced by the situations that we’re in than by our character or conscious willing. We also talk about how these studies relate to free will and moral responsibility, as well as Christian’s own view.
Christian's website: https://www.christianbmiller.com/
Christian's book, The Character Gap: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-character-gap-9780197503805?lang=en&cc=us
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In this episode, we talk with psychologist Tamar Kushnir about the developmental origins of our beliefs in free will and agency. We also talk about studies comparing adults and children and cross-cultural differences in beliefs about agency.
Tamar's website: http://ecclabduke.com/theteam
Tamar’s paper in Philosophy Compass: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/phc3.12529
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In this episode, we talk with social psychologist Roy Baumeister about willpower and an effect that Roy calls “ego depletion”. We also ask Roy about his recent work developing a scientific theory of free will.
Roy's website: https://roybaumeister.com/
Roy's book on Willpower (cowritten with John Tierney): https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/307740/willpower-by-roy-f-baumeister-and-john-tierney/
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In this episode we talk with neuroscientist and philosopher Adina Roskies about what we can learn about free will from monkey cognition. We also ask her about her take on the Libet experiment and whether neuroscience could, in principle, disprove free will.
Adina's Website: https://faculty-directory.dartmouth.edu/adina-l-roskies
Adina's chapter "Monkey Decision-Making as a Model System for Human Decision-Making" can be found in the book Surrounding Free Will, edited by Al Mele: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/surrounding-free-will-9780199333950?cc=us&lang=en&
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In this episode, we talk with neuroscientist Peter Ulric Tse about the neural basis of free will. We cover topics such as criterial causation, kinds of free will, and why he’s a libertarian about free will.
Peter's website: https://sites.dartmouth.edu/peter/
Peter's book: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/neural-basis-free-will
Peter's MOOC: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBZk0Jl545845TCxtkEbJQ7bTJTqi_HrF
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In this episode, we talk with brain scientist Uri Maoz about the neurophilosophy of free will. We ask about the role of neuroscience in the free will debate, how philosophers and neuroscientists can collaborate, and more.
Uri's website: https://braininstitute.us/people/uri-maoz/
Neurophilosophy of Free Will project website: https://neurophil-freewill.org/
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In this episode, Tim Bayne explains a famous experiment by brain scientist Benjamin Libet— an experiment that Libet took to show that we have no free will. We discuss several critical responses to Libet, and Tim argues that, even if unsuccessful in his original aims, Libet has raised good questions for philosophers, physiologists, and neuroscientists to explore.
Tim's website: https://www.mmcr.edu.au/our_people/tim-bayne/
Libet's 1985 Behavioral and Brain Sciences paper, including peer commentary: http://philosophy.org.za/uploads_other/Libet1985.pdf
Recent paper on readiness potential by Aaron Schurger et al.: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364661321000930
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This episode is the first in a new season on free will and science. Over the course of the season, we’ll have episodes covering topics in neuroscience, psychology, and physics. To kick things off with a general introduction to free will and science, we are joined by Robyn Repko Waller.
Robyn's website: https://sites.google.com/site/robynrepkowaller/home
Robyn's John Templeton Foundation White Paper, "Recent Work on Agency, Freedom, and Responsibility: A Review": https://www.templeton.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Free-Will-White-Paper.pdf
Robyn's interview on the Beautiful Minds Blog in Scientific American: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/the-neuroscience-of-free-will-a-q-a-with-robyn-repko-waller/
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Cohosts Taylor Cyr and Matt Flummer answer listener questions about the issues and ideas brought up in Season 2 of The Free Will Show.
Asimov, Bicentennial Man
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0182789/
Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Measure of a Man
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708807/
Kevin Timpe, Free Will: Sourcehood and its Alternatives
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/free-will-9780826496256/
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In this episode, we talk with Seth Shabo about mysterianism, the view that we have free will, but it is a mystery how it is that we have it. While not a mysterian himself, Seth explains the attractions of the view and addresses some common objections, and we end by asking Seth about his own views on free will and moral responsibility.
Seth's website: https://philpapers.org/s/Seth%20Shabo
Seth's paper, "Why Free Will Remains a Mystery": https://philpapers.org/rec/SHAWFW
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In this episode, we talk with Manuel Vargas about revisionism, a family of views according to which our ordinary conception of free will needs to be revised.
Manuel's website: http://vargasphilosophy.com/
Manuel's book, Building Better Beings: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/building-better-beings-9780199697540?cc=ca&lang=en&
P. F. Strawson’s classic paper, “Freedom and Resentment”: https://philpapers.org/rec/STRFAR-4
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In this episode, we talk with Michael McKenna about semicompatibilism (or, perhaps better, source compatibilism). We discuss two versions of the view: “mesh” theories (including Harry Frankfurt’s hierarchical model) and reasons-responsiveness theories.
Michael's website: https://msmckenna.com/
Michael's book, Conversation and Responsibility: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/conversation-and-responsibility-9780199740031?cc=us⟨=en&
Harry Frankfurt’s paper, “Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person”: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2024717?seq=1
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In this episode, we interview Kadri Vihvelin about a recent development of the classical compatibilist position—a development that has come to be known as "dispositional compatibilism." Along the way we discuss time travel, abilities, dispositions, and much more.
Kadri's website: http://vihvelin.com/
Kadri's book, Causes, Laws, and Free Will: Why Determinism Doesn't Matter: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/causes-laws-and-free-will-9780199795185?cc=ca⟨=en&
Kadri's recent time travel paper, "Killing Time Again": https://academic.oup.com/monist/article-abstract/103/3/312/5859025
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In this episode, we ask Helen Beebee about a range of compatibilist positions, beginning with the “classical compatibilism” of Hobbes/Hume and then turning to the conditional analysis of ability, David Lewis’s “local miracle compatibilism,” and, finally, “Humean compatibilism.”
Helen's website: https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/Helen.Beebee.html
Helen’s book, Free Will: An Introduction: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9780230232921
Helen’s paper, “Local Miracle Compatibilism”: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3506084?seq=1
Helen’s paper with Al Mele, “Humean Compatibilism”: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3093706?seq=1
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In this episode we talk with Gregg Caruso about free will skepticism, the view that we lack the freedom (or control) required for moral responsibility in the basic desert sense.
Gregg's website:
http://www.greggcaruso.com/
Gregg's forthcoming book:
https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/law/criminal-law/rejecting-retributivism-free-will-punishment-and-criminal-justice?format=HB
Gregg's new book co-written with Dan Dennett:
https://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509545759
Gregg's Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/skepticism-moral-responsibility/
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This is the third of a three-part series on varieties of libertarianism. In this episode, we talk with David Palmer about non-causal libertarianism.
David's website:
https://philosophy.utk.edu/staff/palmer.php
David's forthcoming article defending noncausal free will: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11229-020-02701-4
David's book Libertarian Free Will: Contemporary Debateshttps://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199860081.001.0001/acprof-9780199860081
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This episode is the second of a three-part series on varieties of libertarianism. In this episode, we talk with Timothy O'Connor about agent causal libertarianism.
Tim's website: https://philosophy.indiana.edu/people/oconnor.shtml
Tim's book: Persons and Causes: The Metaphysics of Free Will:
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Tim’s interviews on Closer to Truth: https://www.closertotruth.com/contributor/timothy-oconnor/profile
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Free Will”: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freewill/
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Emergent Properties”:https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/properties-emergent/
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This season begins with a three-part series on varieties of libertarianism. In this episode, we talk with Chris Franklin about his version of event-causal libertarianism.
Chris's website:
https://christopherefranklin.weebly.com/
Chris's book: A Minimal Libertarianism:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-minimal-libertarianism-9780190682781?cc=us&lang=en&#
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Free Will”: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freewill/
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Cohosts Taylor Cyr and Matt Flummer describe Season 2 of The Free Will Show.
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Cohosts Taylor Cyr and Matt Flummer answer listener questions about the issues and ideas brought up in Season 1 of The Free Will Show.
We discussed Neil Levy's book Hard Luck in this episode: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/hard-luck-9780199601387?cc=ca&lang=en&
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In this episode, Dana Kay Nelkin explains the problem of moral luck, which raises a challenge for all theories of freedom and responsibility. After giving several examples of moral luck, Dana explains some types of response to this challenge.
Dana’s website:
http://www.danakaynelkin.com/
Dana’s article on Moral Luck in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-luck/
Thomas Nagel's famous paper on moral luck:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4106826?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
The Man in the High Castle is on Amazon Prime (Not Netflix!)
https://www.amazon.com/Man-High-Castle-Season/dp/B00RSGFRY8
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In this episode, Derk Pereboom explains the manipulation argument—an argument that aims at showing that determinism and free will are incompatible. After walking us through his widely discussed “Four-Case Argument,” Derk summarizes Alfred Mele’s “Zygote Argument” and responds to a variety of objections to manipulation arguments.
Derk’s website:
http://derk-pereboom.net/
Derk’s Books:
Free Will, Agency, and Meaning in Life: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/free-will-agency-and-meaning-in-life-9780198776864?cc=ca&lang=en&#
Four Views on Free Will: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Four+Views+on+Free+Will-p-9781405134866
Others mentioned in the episode:
Mele’s Zygote Argument can be found in chapter 7 of Free Will and Luck: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/free-will-and-luck-9780195374391?cc=us&lang=en&
McKenna’s Hard-Line Reply: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1933-1592.2008.00179.x
In this episode, Carolina Sartorio explains “Frankfurt cases”—cases that call into question the intuitive idea, sometimes called the principle of alternative possibilities (“PAP” for short), according to which moral responsibility requires alternative possibilities. After talking through one type of objection to Frankfurt cases, Carolina discusses the significance of Frankfurt cases, which she argues extends beyond their role as alleged counterexamples to PAP.
Carolina’s Website: http://sartorio.arizona.edu/
Carolina’s Book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/causation-and-free-will-9780198746799?cc=ca⟨=en&
Frankfurt’s Paper: https://philpapers.org/rec/FRAAPA-8
Mele and Robb’s Paper: https://philpapers.org/rec/MELRFC
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In this episode, Alfred Mele explains the problem of luck for libertarianism (the view that we have free will and that free will is incompatible with determinism). Along the way, we discuss different types of libertarian views of free will, as well as Al’s own proposed solution to the problem of luck on behalf of libertarians.
Al’s Website: http://myweb.fsu.edu/amele/almele.html
Al’s book on this subject: Free Will and Luck: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/free-will-and-luck-9780195374391?cc=us&lang=en&
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In this episode, Peter van Inwagen explains the consequence argument for incompatibilism. Afterwards, he discusses what he takes to be the problem of freedom and determinism.
Peter’s Website: https://philosophy.nd.edu/people/emeritus/peter-van-inwagen/
A collection of Peter’s written work: https://andrewmbailey.com/pvi/
Papers referenced in the episode:
"Are We Free to Break the Laws?" by David Lewis
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1755-2567.1981.tb00473.x
“A Reconsideration of an Argument Against Compatibilism” by Thomas McKay and David Johnson https://www.pdcnet.org/philtopics/content/philtopics_1996_0024_0002_0113_0122
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In this episode, Linda Zagzebski explains the argument from God’s infallible foreknowledge to the conclusion that no one has free will. After discussing several responses to the argument, she then explains why this problem is interesting—whether one is a theist or not.
Linda’s website: https://www.ou.edu/cas/philosophy/people/faculty/linda-zagzebski
Recommended resources:
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Foreknowledge and Free Will”: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/free-will-foreknowledge/
Linda's first book, The Dilemma of Freedom and Foreknowledge: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-dilemma-of-freedom-and-foreknowledge-9780195107630?cc=us⟨=en&#
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In this episode, Alicia Finch explains an intriguing argument for logical fatalism—the view that the laws of logic preclude out having free will—as well as four types of response to the argument.
Alicia’s website: https://www.aliciafinch.com/
Recommended resources:
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Fatalism”: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fatalism/
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Cohosts Taylor Cyr and Matt Flummer describe Season 1 of The Free Will Show.
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Matt’s website: matthewflummer.weebly.com/
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In this episode, John Martin Fischer explains three potential threats to our having free will in the sense of having the freedom to do otherwise than what we actually do: the threats from logical fatalism, divine foreknowledge, and causal determinism. John ends by giving a teaser for an alternative conception of free will.
John Martin Fischer’s website: https://alaw003.wixsite.com/johnmartinfischer
Recommended resources:
The book that John mentions at the end of the episode is Four Views on Free Will: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Four+Views+on+Free+Will-p-9781405134866
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In this episode, cohosts Taylor Cyr and Matt Flummer present an introduction to the philosophy of free will, including a discussion of differing conceptions of free will, how free will is related to moral responsibility, and why it matters if we have free will.
Recommended resources:
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Free Will”: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freewill/
The study by psychologists from Brown University is: “Free Will without Metaphysics” by Andrew Monroe and Bertram Malle, available here: http://research.clps.brown.edu/soccogsci/Publications/Pubs/Monroe_Malle_2015_Free_will_without_metaphysics.pdf
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In this episode, cohosts Taylor Cyr and Matt Flummer introduce themselves and this podcast. Along the way they discuss what the discipline of philosophy is and why they’re making this podcast.
Taylor’s website: taylorwcyr.com
Matt’s website: matthewflummer.weebly.com/
Also, Matt forgot to mention the name of his college: Porterville College
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