Free Will, Determinism, and Compatibilism (Robert Wright & Gideon Rosen)

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4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2019

⏱️ 79 minutes

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A brief primer on the free will vs. determinism debate ... Are moral responsibility and determinism compatible? ... Is punishment a tragic necessity or a moral good? ... Gideon tries to convince Bob that compatibilism is coherent ... Gideon's distinctive take on compatibilism ... A thought experiment about the moral culpability of an ancient slaveholder ... Free will and the mind-body problem ... Buddhist ideas about punishment ...

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast from Meaning of Life TV.
0:08.8	Hi, Gideon.
0:10.1	Hey, Bob.
0:11.2	How are you doing?
0:12.3	I'm very well.
0:13.1	How are you?
0:14.0	I'm doing fine.
0:15.6	I'm looking forward to talking to you.
0:17.1	Let me explain why, first of all.
0:19.6	Well, let's start with me, actually.
0:21.4	I'm Robert Wright.
0:25.8	This is the right show available on those streaming video and the audio podcast. You're Gideon,
0:30.4	Rosen, chairman of the chairperson, I should say, of the philosophy department at Princeton University,
0:36.2	and the philosopher of some renown. Anything you want to plug? You know, you've got this kind of textbook thing, right?
0:38.5	I will plug the Norton Introduction to Philosophy,
0:41.4	which is a general textbook for introductory philosophy courses.
0:47.4	The main angle of which is it incorporates both classic readings from the tradition
0:53.7	and about 25 new essays written by contemporary philosophers
0:58.9	designed to bring introductory students up to the cutting edge.
1:03.8	So the idea is that philosophy is one of those subjects where an introductory course can get you up pretty close
1:09.9	to what people are thinking
1:11.5	about these days.
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