AS53: Free Will with Ryan Born
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Thomas Smith
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🗓️ 28 July 2014
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Free Will with Ryan Born This week we've got Ryan Born, who you may remember as the winner of the Sam Harris essay contest. Ryan is a philosopher who runs the blog http://pointofcontroversy.com. Last time we spoke, Ryan had a ton to teach us about Moral Philosophy. This time though, we're here to discuss a … Continue reading AS53: Free Will with Ryan Born
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to, atheistically speaking. Oh, Hello and welcome to atheistically speaking episode 53. I'm your host Thomas Smith. |
| 0:37.0 | All right, I'd like to welcome back this week Ryan Bourne. You may remember him from such episodes as a few weeks ago. |
| 0:43.2 | I don't know whenever that was. |
| 0:45.1 | How you doing, Ryan? |
| 0:46.2 | I'm doing great, man. |
| 0:47.4 | I'm excited to be back on the show with you. |
| 0:48.9 | I am very excited to have a more learned perspective on free will. |
| 0:53.0 | It's a topic I'm really interested in and based on the response, |
| 0:57.0 | I think everyone's pretty interested in this one. |
| 1:00.0 | I mean, it's, who listens to these kinds of podcasts anyway. So I think it should be great. I learned |
| 1:06.7 | a ton the last time you were on and I think it could be even better this time. We'll see. |
| 1:11.6 | So you have that to live up to so don't no pressure. |
| 1:14.8 | Yeah, thanks. You're going to be like free will. |
| 1:17.7 | I just lower expectations. Yeah, you're like Webster's dictionary defines free will as and then you're like, Webster's Dictionary defines free will as, and then you're like, that's all I have. That's all I got. I got that one thing. |
| 1:27.5 | All right, so a bad start, Skype cut out. I just told the funniest joke you've ever heard Ryan so get into |
| 1:33.8 | character and give me a nice hearty. Oh man you are a terrible actor. But |
| 1:41.9 | fortunately we don't have you on for your acting skills. |
| 1:44.7 | We have you on. For your expertise in philosophy and as free will I am blanking right now is that and it not your |
| 1:56.1 | specific area of study of course but is it among one of your more familiar ones |
| 2:00.1 | all right good so this is my opportunity to lower expectations. |
| 2:06.2 | So last time I was on the show, we were talking about moral philosophy and I told you that |
| 2:10.7 | was not my specialty. |
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