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Episode 2: The "Dangerous Truth" about Free Will (Free Will and Morality, Pt. 2)

Episode 2: The "Dangerous Truth" about Free Will (Free Will and Morality, Pt. 2)

FromVery Bad Wizards


Episode 2: The "Dangerous Truth" about Free Will (Free Will and Morality, Pt. 2)

FromVery Bad Wizards

ratings:
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”
Released:
Aug 31, 2012
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Very Bad Wizards is a podcast featuring a philosopher (Tamler Sommers) and a psychologist (David Pizarro), who share a love for ethics, pop culture, and cognitive science, and who have a marked inability to distinguish sacred from profane. Each podcast includes discussions of moral philosophy, recent work on moral psychology and neuroscience, and the overlap between the two.