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The Free Will Show

Taylor Cyr and Matt Flummer

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Do any of us really have free will? What does it mean to have free will, anyway? Is free will compatible with determinism? Hasn’t science disproved free will? How could we have free will if God exists and foreknows everything that we will ever do? The Free Will Show provides a beginner-friendly introduction to the topic of free will while at the same time exposing listeners to cutting-edge developments on the topic. Hosted by a couple of philosophers, Taylor Cyr and Matt Flummer, The Free Wi ...
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In this episode we talk with John Bishop and Ken Perszyk about the euteleological understanding of theism, which is an alternative to personal theism. John's website: https://profiles.auckland.ac.nz/jc-bishop Ken's website: https://profiles.waikato.ac.nz/ken.perszyk John and Ken's book: God, Purpose, and Reality Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefree…
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In this episode, we talk with Scott Davison about petitionary prayer. We begin with what petitionary prayer is, and then we discuss challenges to petitionary prayer from divine free will. Scott's website: https://scottdavison.yourwebsitespace.com/ Scott's books: God and Prayer Petitionary Prayer Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshow Instagra…
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In this episode, we talk with Alan Rhoda about the strengths and weaknesses of various models of divine providence and free will. Alan's website: http://www.alanrhoda.net/ Alan's book, Open Theism: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/open-theism/58D1856058A7BAED3BD758245927FADB Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshow Instagram: https://www.in…
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In this episode, we talk with Gloria Frost about various views of divine causation of creaturely action, focusing on three views from the medieval period. Gloria's website: https://gloriafrost.org/ Gloria's book, Aquinas on Efficient Causation and Causal Powers: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/aquinas-on-efficient-causation-and-causal-powers/5…
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In this episode, we talk with Jason Turner about whether certain kinds of compatibilists can use the free will defense in response to the problem of evil. Jason's website: https://philosophy.arizona.edu/person/jason-turner Jason's paper, "Compatibilism and the Free Will Defense": https://place.asburyseminary.edu/faithandphilosophy/vol30/iss2/1/ Twi…
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This ninth season of the podcast will explore topics on free will and theology. In this episode, we talk with Dan Speak about free will and the problem of evil. Dan's website: https://bellarmine.lmu.edu/philosophy/faculty/?expert=daniel.speak Dan's book, The Problem of Evil: https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=the-problem-of-evil--9780…
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In this episode, we talk with Anneli Jefferson about instrumentalist accounts of moral responsibility and some challenges for the view, including issues related to blaming the dead. Anneli's website: https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/jeffersona1 Anneli's paper, "Instrumentalism about Moral Responsibility Revisited": https://academic.oup.com/pq/a…
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In this episode, we talk with Josh May about issues in neuroethics and the law and also about mental disorders and moral responsibility. Josh's website: https://www.joshdmay.com/ Josh's book, Neuroethics: Agency in the Age of Brain Sciecne: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/neuroethics-9780197648094?cc=us&lang=en& Twitter: https://twitter.com…
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In this episode, we talk with Meghan Griffith about developing a narrative capacity and how it relates to becoming morally responsible. Megan's website: https://www.davidson.edu/people/meghan-griffith Megan's paper, "Narrative Capacity and Moral Responsibility": https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/social-philosophy-and-policy/article/abs/narrat…
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Cohosts Taylor Cyr and Matt Flummer describe their new book How Free Are We? Conversations from the Free Will Show. Preorder the book from Oxford University Press: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/how-free-are-we-9780197657508?facet_narrowbybinding_facet=Ebook&facet_narrowbypubdate_facet=Last%203%20months&lang=en&cc=us Also available on Amaz…
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In this episode we talk with Justin Coates about the nature of ambivalence and arguments for and against it. Justin's website: https://djustincoates.com/index.html Justin's book, In Praise of Ambivalence: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/in-praise-of-ambivalence-9780197652398?q=justin%20coates&lang=en&cc=us# Twitter: https://twitter.com/thef…
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In this episode, we talk with Tommie Shelby about whether and when states lack the standing to punish. We also discuss Tommie's book on prison abolitionism, which makes the case for prison reform without accepting that incarceration is illegitimate. Tommie's website: https://www.tommieshelby.com/ Tommie's book, The Idea of Prison Abolition: https:/…
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In this episode, we talk with Stephanie Collins and Niels de Haan about whether structuralism or historicism best accounts for group responsibility. Stephanie's website: https://stephaniecollins.xyz/ Niels's website: https://sites.google.com/view/niels-de-haan/homepage Their paper, "Group Responsibility and Historicism": https://academic.oup.com/pq…
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In this episode, we talk with Joseph Metz about moral luck and responsibility for omissions. Joe's website: https://www.joseph-metz.com/home Joe's paper, “Omissions, Moral Luck, and Minding the (Epistemic) Gap”: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/canadian-journal-of-philosophy/article/omissions-moral-luck-and-minding-the-epistemic-gap/F95FD501…
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In this episode, we talk with Mihailis Diamantis about the nature of corporations and some similarities between corporate and individual criminal responsibility. Mihailis's website: https://law.uiowa.edu/people/mihailis-diamantis Mihailis's paper, "Corporate Criminal Minds": https://ndlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/NDL509.pdf Twitter: htt…
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In this episode, we talk with Raff Donelson about several different topics, including his response to free will skepticism, whether its okay to make people responsible to make reparations for historical injustices, and his recent work on medieval criminal trials involving non-human animals. Raff's website: https://www.raffdonelson.com/ Raff's paper…
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In this episode, we talk with Justin Capes about the principle of alternative possibilities and his version of the flicker of freedom response to Frankfurt cases. Justin's website: https://www.justincapes.com/ Justin's book, Moral Responsibility and the Flicker of Freedom: https://academic.oup.com/book/46725 Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewill…
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In this episode, we talk with Simone Gubler about forgiveness, its value, and some potential problems with institutional attempts to make forgiveness happen. Simone's website: https://simonegubler.com/ Simone's paper, "Recent Work in Forgiveness": https://academic.oup.com/analysis/article-abstract/82/4/738/6908773?redirectedFrom=fulltext Twitter: h…
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In this episode, we talk with Stephen Morse about the nature of addiction and about the moral and criminal responsibility of people who suffer from addiction. Stephen's website: https://www.law.upenn.edu/faculty/smorse/ Stephen's book (edited with Adina Roskies), A Primer on Criminal Law and Neuroscience: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-p…
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In this episode, we talk with David Shoemaker about his theory of different kinds of moral responsibility and its implications for psychopathy and the law. David's website: https://sites.google.com/site/dshoemakr/home David's book, Responsibility from the Margins: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/responsibility-from-the-margins-9780198715672…
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In this episode, we talk with Gideon Yaffe about whether and to what extent children should be held less culpable for breaking the law. Gideon's website: https://law.yale.edu/gideon-yaffe Gideon's book, The Age of Culpability: Children and the Age of Criminal Responsibility: https://academic.oup.com/book/8349?login=false Twitter: https://twitter.co…
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In this episode, we talk with Saul Smilansky about overpunishment, focusing on the question of whether overpunishing a guilty person is morally worse than punishing an innocent person. We also briefly discuss Saul's work on free will and illusion. Saul's website: https://www.saulsmilansky.com/ Saul's book, Free Will and Illusion: https://global.oup…
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In this episode, we talk with Katrina Sifferd about the rehabilitation of criminal offenders and the effects that environments can have on criminal behavior and rehabilitation. Katrina's website: https://pleasandexcuses.net/ Katrina's paper, "Structural Injustice and Fair Opportunity": https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11572-023-09697-1 Tw…
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In this episode, we talk with Victor Tadros about moral authority (or standing) and punishment. In particular, we ask about what it would mean for the state to be complicit in the behavior of criminal offenders and how that complicity might affect its standing to punish. Victor's website: https://vtadros367761169.wordpress.com/ Victor's book, Crimi…
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In this episode, we talk with Craig Agule about some of the philosophical issues related to mens rea requirements in the law and also about the connection between mens rea and free will. Craig's website: https://craigagule.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefreewillshow/?hl=en Facebook: https:/…
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In this episode, we talk with Erin Kelly about the main theories of justification for punishment, as well as some challenges for those theories. We also ask her about her work on moving from retributive to restorative justice. Erin's website: https://erinikelly.com Erin's book, The Limits of Blame: Rethinking Punishment and Responsibility: https://…
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This episode starts a new season on free will and the law. In a wide-ranging discussion, Kyle Fritz gives some background for various key issues at the intersection of free will and the law. Kyle's website: https://kylegfritz.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefreewillshow/?hl=en Facebook: http…
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In this episode, we talk with Robert Wallace about a dilemma for compatibilist views that reductively explain free will in terms of dispositions. Robert's website: https://www.roberthwallace.com/ Robert's paper, "A Dilemma for Reductive Compatibilism": https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10670-021-00475-w Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefree…
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In this episode we talk with Nadine Elzein about the public health model for responding to criminal behavior. We ask about reasons for preferring this model (including free will skepticism) as well as some common objections to treating crime like a public health issue. Nadine's website: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/people/summaries/elze…
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In this episode we talk with John Maier about what he calls 'options' and how they’re related in other issues in the philosophy of agency. John's website: https://www.jmaier.net John's book, Options and Agency: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-10243-1 Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/…
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In this episode, we talk with Susan Wolf about her view of free will, which she calls "The Reason View," and how her view has evolved over the years. Susan's website: https://philosophy.unc.edu/people/susan-wolf/ Susan's book, Freedom within Reason: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/freedom-within-reason-9780195085655?cc=us&lang=en& Twitter: …
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In this episode, we talk with Justin Caouette about a variety of topics that he’s interested in in the free will debate as well as what is at stake in the debate itself. Justin's website: http://www.profjustincaouette.com/ Justin's co-edited volume, Free Will and Moral Responsibility: https://www.cambridgescholars.com/free-will-and-moral-responsibi…
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In this episode, we talk with Per-Erik Milam about blameworthiness and forgiveness. Along the way, we talk about two types of view about what forgiveness is. Per's website: http://www.pererikmilam.com/ Per's chapter discussed in the episode is called "Forgiveness," and it is in the Oxford Handbook of Moral Responsibility: https://global.oup.com/aca…
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In this episode we talk with Megan Fritts about causal and non-causal theories of action explanation and why she prefers a non-causal approach. Megan's website: https://sites.google.com/view/meganjfritts/home Megan's paper, "Reasons Explanations as Structural Explanations": https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-021-03349-4 Twitter: https…
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In this episode, we talk with Andrei Buckareff about a kind of soft-line response to the manipulation argument that draws from work within the philosophy of action. Andrei's website: https://sites.google.com/site/andreibuckareff/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefreewillshow/?hl=en Facebook: https…
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In this episode, we talk with Oisín Deery about his work on free will as a natural kind. Along the way, we talk about what it feels like to act freely, whether freedom is compatible with determinism, and whether artificial intelligences could have free will. Oisin's website: https://www.oisindeery.com/ Oisin's book, Naturally Free Action: https://g…
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In this episode, we discuss a popular response to Frankfurt cases called the "flicker of freedom" strategy. Our guest is Bradford Stockdale. Brad's PhilPeople profile: https://philpeople.org/profiles/bradford-stockdale Brad's paper, "Moral Responsibility, Alternative Possibilities, and Acting on One's Own": https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007…
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In this episode, we talk with Greg Welty about what compatibilists about freedom and determinism could contribute to the debate about freedom and foreknowledge. Greg's website: http://www.gregwelty.com/ Greg's book, Why Is There Evil in the World (And So Much Of It)?: https://www.christianfocus.com/products/2741/why-is-there-evil-in Twitter: https:…
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This is our second of two episodes on open theism. We talk with Patrick Todd about two versions of the view and why he prefers the open future open theist view. Patrick's website: http://www.patricktodd.co/ Patrick's book, The Open Future: Why Future Contingents Are All False: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-open-future-9780192897916?cc…
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This is our first of two episodes on open theism, the view that we have free will and that it is incompatible with divine foreknowledge. In this episode, we talk with William Hasker about reasons to be an open theist and some potential challenges. Bill's website: https://www.huntington.edu/meet-the-faculty/william-hasker Influential book on open th…
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In this episode, we talk with David Hunt about the source-libertarian response to the problem of freedom and foreknowledge, according to which, although causal determinism would rule out moral responsibility, alternative possibilities are not required. David's website: https://www.whittier.edu/academics/philosophy/david-hunt David's paper, "On Augu…
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This episode is the second in a two-part series on the dependence response to the problem of freedom and foreknowledge. In this episode, we talk with Philip Swenson about his version of the dependence response, whether Molinists can accept the response, and more. Philip's website: https://sites.google.com/site/philipjswenson/home Philip's paper, "A…
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This episode is the first in a two-part series on the dependence response to the problem of freedom and foreknowledge. In this episode, we talk with Trenton Merricks about truth, dependence, foreknowledge, and freedom. Trenton's website: https://www.trentonmerricks.com/ Trenton's paper, "Truth and Freedom": https://www.trentonmerricks.com/public/pu…
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In this episode, we talk with William Lane Craig about Molinism, a view about the compatibility of divine providence and human free will that is sometimes brought up in response to the challenge of divine foreknowledge. Bill's website: https://www.reasonablefaith.org/ Bill's book, The Only Wise God: https://wipfandstock.com/9781579103163/the-only-w…
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In this episode, we talk with Amy Seymour about Ockhamist solution to the problem of freedom and foreknowledge. Along the way, we discuss various related issues in the philosophy of time. Amy's website: https://www.amyseymour.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefreewillshow/?hl=en Facebook: http…
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In this episode, we talk with Katherin Rogers about the Boethian response to the problem of freedom and foreknowledge, according to which God’s timelessness helps to solve the problem. Kate's website: https://www.udel.edu/faculty-staff/experts/katherin-rogers/ Kate's recent book, The Experimental Approach to Free Will: https://www.routledge.com/The…
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This episode is the first in a new season on the puzzle of divine foreknowledge and human free will. Our guest, Simon Kittle, introduces the problem of freedom and foreknowledge and gives an overview of the responses to this problem that we’ll cover in more detail in the remaining episodes of this season. Simon's website: https://www.simonkittle.co…
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In this bonus episode, we talk with Garrett Pendergraft about his new book, Free Will and Human Agency: 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Though Experiments. We’ll be back next month with season 5, which focuses on the problem of human freedom and divine foreknowledge. Garrett's website: https://seaver.pepperdine.edu/academics/faculty/garrett-pendergraft/…
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In this episode, we talk with Marcela Herdova about moral luck and transformative experiences—the kind of experiences that fundamentally change who we are. Marcela's website: https://marcelaherdova.com/ Marcela's paper, "Transformative Moral Luck": https://www.pdcnet.org/msp/content/msp_2019_0043_0162_0180 Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillsh…
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In this episode, we talk with Santiago Amaya about an argument for the conclusion that "free will" is a vague term. We also talk about what Santiago thinks are some of the implications of this conclusion for the free will debate. Santiago's PhilPeople profile: https://philpeople.org/profiles/santiago-amaya Santiago's podcast, "Free Will Matters": h…
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