Christian List on Free Will

Philosophy Bites

Nigel Warburton

Education, Philosophy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 5 February 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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What is free will? Do we have it? These are difficult questions. Neuroscience seems to point in the direction of determinism. But Christian List suggests that there might still be room for genuine free will.

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0:00.0	This is
0:02.0	this is philosophy bites with me David Edmonds and me Nigel Warton.
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0:47.1	and that's Mark with a C. M A R C Sanders Foundation dot org. We have free will, don't we? At least some of the time. We're
0:58.3	not automata, we're not puppets. It certainly feels that way. Despite some neuroscientists suggesting this might just be an illusion
1:06.4	generated by our brains.
1:09.1	We freely chose to interview Kristen List on this topic. So what exactly is free will and do we
1:16.9	really have it? Christian List. Welcome to Philosophy Bites. Hello, hi. We're talking
1:22.4	today about free will. Now we all believe intuitively
1:27.1	that we've got free will you had the freedom to come to the interview or not as as the case may be, you chose to come,
1:34.7	thankfully. But what is Free Will? Yeah, so Free Will on a first gloss is an
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