Does Neuroscience Disprove Free Will? w/ Prof. James Madden (Off-Campus Conversations)

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🗓️ 23 February 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Join Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. of Aquinas 101, Godsplaining, and Pints with Aquinas for an off-campus conversation with Dr. James Madden about his latest Thomistic Institute, "Does Neuroscience Disprove Free Will?" Does Neuroscience Disprove Free Will? w/ Dr. James Madden and Fr. Gregory Pine (Off-Campus Conversations) You can listen to the original lecture here: https://soundcloud.com/thomisticinstitute/does-neuroscience-disprove-free-will-prof-james-madden For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Prof. James Madden is Professor of Philosophy at Benedictine College. He lives in Atchison, Kansas with his wife (Jennifer) and their six children; William, Martha, J. Patrick, Brendan, Jack, and Cormac. He is originally from Wisconsin, where he received a B.A. from St. Norbert College, and did his graduate work at Kent State (MA, 1998) and Purdue (Ph.D., 2002). He was awarded the Benedictine College Distinguished Educator of the Year Award in 2006. In addition to usual general education courses in philosophy (Logic, Principles of Nature, Ethics, and Philosophical Psychology), Dr. Madden typically teaches courses in modern philosophy, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion.

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0:00.0	Hello, my name is Father Gregory Pine,
0:11.6	and I'm a Dominican friar of the province of St. Joseph,
0:13.6	and welcome back to the Timistic Institute podcast.
0:16.8	Specifically, welcome back to off-campus conversations,
0:20.1	where I follow up with a
0:21.7	Temistic Institute speaker who will have given a lecture either on campus or in the setting of
0:26.1	a domestic institute conference. So that way we can, yeah, chase down some of those insights
0:31.1	and, well, work the conclusions to their logical terminus. And that is just what we're going to do
0:37.0	today with Professor Jim Madden, joining us from Kansas. Thanks so much for joining off-campus conversations.
0:43.3	Thanks, Father. I really appreciate it. So, green's from Northeast Kansas.
0:48.3	Boom. That's it. That's a place from which I want to be greeted, especially in my present exile on a continent which
0:54.5	does not value the same things that people value in Northeast Kansas. I will leave that as vague
0:59.1	as possible so it doesn't come across as condemnatory. But many people will know you from
1:04.3	other contributions to the Timistic Institute podcast, to Mystic Institute Things and beyond from
1:09.7	the book that you wrote, Philosophy
1:11.1	of Mind and other publications. Those who don't know you, would you just say a word, who
1:15.6	you are, where you're from, what you do? Sure. You know, once again, I'm Jim Matt. You
1:21.6	know, I teach at Benedictine College in Hatcherson, Kansas. Gosh, I've been here. It'll be 20 years this summer. So here we are.
1:30.9	And, you know, I'm a father, I'm a husband. You know, as you mentioned, I wrote a earlier book
1:37.4	called Mind Matter Nature on philosophy of mind, particularly with respect toomism.
1:43.9	I guess what we're going to talk about today is,
1:46.6	you know, a lecture that's like kind of a summary of a chapter from a forthcoming book I have
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