The Free Will Show

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 Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefreewillshow/?hl=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The-Free-Wi...

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 Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshow Instagram: https://www.insta...

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 Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefreewillshow/?hl=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The-Free-Will-Sho...

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 Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefreewillshow/?hl=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The-Free-Will-Show-10553503120040...

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 Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefreewillshow/?hl=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The-Free-Will-Show-...

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 Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefreewillshow/?hl=en Facebook: https...

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 Responsibil...

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 Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefreewillshow/?hl=en Facebook: https:/...

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&qu...

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-ke...

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 Twitter: https://...

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 . Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefreewillshow/?hl=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The...

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 Twitter: https://twitter.c...

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&lang=en& Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshow Instagram: https://www.instag...

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/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshow Instagram: https:/...

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 Augus...

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 Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefreewillshow/?hl=en Facebook: htt...

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...

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 Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefreewillshow/?hl=en F...

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/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshow Instagram: https://www.instagram...

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 Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefreewillshow/?hl=...

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 Twitter: https://twitter.co...

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 Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefreewillshow/?hl=en Facebook: https://www.facebook...

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 Twitter: https:/...

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 Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefreewillshow/?hl=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The-F...