Free Will Worth Wanting |Daniel Dennett, Helen Steward, Patrick Haggard

Philosophy For Our Times

English - October 27, 2020 11:58 - 45 minutes - 42.1 MB - ★★★★ - 260 ratings
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Do we choose to follow the rules? Are we really free to decide, or is choice just an illusion? On this week’s episode we’re trying to understand why many neuroscientists and philosophers argue that there is no such thing as free will.

Groundbreaking philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett, Cognitive Neuroscience specialist Patrick Haggard and author of A Metaphysics for Freedom Helen Steward deliberate over the existence of free will. Mark Linsenmayer hosts.

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