41 - Jon Rosen and Ben Burgis - Free Will and Moral Responsibility
Two for Tea Podcast
English - November 18, 2019 20:45 - 2 hours - 228 MB - ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
6:38 Defining terms: compatibilism, semi-compatibilism, determinism, libertarianism
46:50 Moral responsibility
1:02:30 Reasons responsiveness
1:20:07 Sociopathy and the amydala
1:24:30 The sorites paradox (the paradox of the heap)
1:36:15 What does it mean to have control?
1:52:05 Rights forfeiture theory, criminal punishment and free will
2:29:30 How did the three of us arrive at our respective positions?
For the original discussion on Letter, see:
https://letter.wiki/conversation/54.
For my article on the discussion see:
https://areomagazine.com/2019/07/28/on-free-will-a-letter-exchange
For Ben Burgis’ responses, see:
https://areomagazine.com/2019/08/02/free-will-and-sam-harris-puppet-analogy-a-reply-to-iona-italia/
And
https://areomagazine.com/2019/10/08/free-will-the-libet-experiments-and-the-war-on-terror/
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Additional References
For Frankfurt cases:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/compatibilism/
Gagandeep Singh:
https://www.hindustantimes.com/dehradun/i-was-just-doing-my-duty-says-cop-who-saved-muslim-youth-s-life/story-CB1NP0uP1vz34NsV12bjGK.html
Pereboom’s four case argument:
https://philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com/2015/01/perebooms-four-case-argument-against.html
For more on John Martin Fischer:
http://www.informationphilosopher.com/solutions/philosophers/fischer/
David Lewis, “The Paradox of Time Travel”:
https://www.csus.edu/indiv/m/merlinos/paradoxes%20of%20time%20travel.pdf
Ryan Lake, “No Fate But What We Make: A Defence of the Compatibility of Freedom and Causal Determinism”:
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3457/849101f0502d9ad148c0e41eddef4c50fa84.pdf
Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” (1973)
Sam Harris, “In Defence of Profiling”:
https://samharris.org/in-defense-of-profiling/
Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis (approx. 405 BCE)