Episode 193: Free Wanting (Frankfurt's "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person")
Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2020
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
David and Tamler want to go old school and discuss a classic Frankfurt paper on free will. But do they want to want that? Are they free to want what they want to want? Are they free to will what they want to will or to have the will they want?
And if that's not Dr. Seuss enough for you, shouting "FUCK" increases pain tolerance but what about shouting "TWIZPIPE"?
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- Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person by Harry Frankfurt
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist, Dave Pizarro, |
| 0:05.9 | having an informal discussion about issues and signs and ethics. |
| 0:09.4 | Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm out of allow to say, |
| 0:13.6 | and knowing my dad some very inappropriate jokes. |
| 0:16.9 | Your magician ought to whizz it. |
| 0:22.1 | The lady on his phone. |
| 0:24.8 | Who are you? |
| 0:26.8 | Who are you? |
| 0:28.8 | I'm very bad men. |
| 0:30.8 | I'm a very good man. |
| 0:32.8 | Good man. |
| 0:34.8 | They think he's lost, and we know more brains than you have. |
| 0:36.8 | They do our attention. |
| 0:38.8 | So I'm not bad. |
| 0:40.8 | So I'm not bad. |
| 0:42.8 | I'm not bad. |
| 0:44.8 | I'm not bad. |
| 0:46.8 | I'm not bad. |
| 0:48.8 | I'm not bad. |
| 0:50.8 | I'm not bad. |
| 0:52.8 | I'm not bad. |
| 0:54.8 | I'm not bad. |
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