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SIO232: Gregg Caruso on Free Will, Part 2

Serious Inquiries Only

Thomas Smith

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

This is a part 2 of 2. We continue the discussion with Gregg Caruso! He is a professor of philosophy at SUNY Corning in New York, honorary professor of philosophy at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, and visiting researcher at the University of Aberdeen School of Law in Scotland. His latest book is Unjust Deserts: Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice (forthcoming). He also debated Daniel Dennett on free will in written form on Aeon, which we highly encourage you to check out!

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0:00.0

You're listening to serious inquiries only. I'm going to Hello and welcome to serious inquiries only Only. This is episode 232.

0:34.0

I know I said it was 230 last episode,

0:36.3

but I lied.

0:37.0

We had a little mix up in the order of how things were going.

0:40.6

Anyway, it's 232 this time, and we are here for part two with Greg Caruso.

0:46.1

So much fun. I'll give you a little refresher. I had just asked about my definitely

0:51.8

not real plan to kill whoever was responsible for the

0:55.2

Mr peanut fiasco in the Super Bowl. I just want to emphasize that I have no

1:00.8

immediate plans to really do that but under Greg Caruso's system I don't know

1:06.7

maybe it would be different so that is the question that I sort of just doubled down on and

1:11.8

here we are to hear Greg's response to that.

1:15.6

Yeah so there are cases like this I mean a lot of cases actually of domestic

1:22.4

violence where I say a husband kills his wife may not pose a threat to anyone else

1:27.1

in the future in a certain sense because maybe they'll never remarry or they'll never be in a kind of intimate situation where that would be

1:35.0

acquired. Here's where I would fall back on some kind of epistemic uncertainty

1:39.7

which is someone who commits such a violent act.

1:43.0

Their behavior at least initially gives us grounds for incapacitation

1:48.0

because we don't know yet at this particular moment what kind of future threat.

1:51.0

I mean, they could give us their word that you only want to eat this

1:54.3

one billionaire and that's it not buying it parole denied Jamie I don't know I don't

2:00.5

know how much we should take the individual's word on that.

2:03.3

So I think what we would be able to do is at least justify a certain limited amount of incapacitation

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