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Episode 2: The "Dangerous Truth" about Free Will (Free Will and Morality, Pt. 2)
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Episode 2: The "Dangerous Truth" about Free Will (Free Will and Morality, Pt. 2)
FromVery Bad Wizards
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Length:
74 minutes
Released:
Aug 31, 2012
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Tamler and David discuss whether giving up our belief in free will makes us more likely to abandon our moral standards. Links“You Can’t Handle the Truth!” Jesse Bering “Scientists
say free will probably doesn’t exist, but urge: “Don’t stop believing!”
Excellent accessible description of the
Vohs and Schooler study that we discuss. Tamler’s blog post in Psychology Today criticizing the pessimistic views of Smilansky and
Vohs and Schooler: "No Soul? I can live with that. No free will? Aaahhhh!". “Eat the poo-poo.” “Like ice cream…” Josh Knobe on free will and experimental
philosophy. Tamler's dialogue on some of the problems with current experimental work on free will: "Free Will and Experimental Philosophy: An Intervention."“I want him dead! I want his family dead!” Uhlmann, Zhu, Pizarro & Bloom “Blood
is Thicker: Moral Spillover Effects Based on Kinship”
say free will probably doesn’t exist, but urge: “Don’t stop believing!”
Excellent accessible description of the
Vohs and Schooler study that we discuss. Tamler’s blog post in Psychology Today criticizing the pessimistic views of Smilansky and
Vohs and Schooler: "No Soul? I can live with that. No free will? Aaahhhh!". “Eat the poo-poo.” “Like ice cream…” Josh Knobe on free will and experimental
philosophy. Tamler's dialogue on some of the problems with current experimental work on free will: "Free Will and Experimental Philosophy: An Intervention."“I want him dead! I want his family dead!” Uhlmann, Zhu, Pizarro & Bloom “Blood
is Thicker: Moral Spillover Effects Based on Kinship”
Released:
Aug 31, 2012
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Episode 1: Brains, Robots, and Free Will (Free Will and Morality Pt. 1): Dave and Tamler talk about the new wave of skepticism about free will and moral responsibility in the popular press from people like Sam Harris and Jerry Coyne, and argue that neuroscientific data adds little of substance to the case other than telling us what we already know: human beings are natural biological entities. Dave comes out as a Star Trek nerd and asks whether we're all, in the end, like Data the android. They also wonder whether a belief in free will is all that's keeping us from having sex with our dogs. Finally, Dave grills Tamler about his new book on the differences in attitudes about free will and moral responsibility across cultures. by Very Bad Wizards