Shows tagged with : Free Will

  • May 13 : Freedom, Blame, and Resentment
    When someone acts without regard for our feelings or needs, a natural response is to feel resentment toward that person. But is that a rational...
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  • March 06 : Challenges to Free Will
    We seem to be able to decide our behavior for ourselves – what we do is up to us.  But if everything that we do can be explained by physics,...
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  • September 19 : Dualism
    What is the relationship between the mind and the brain?  Monists believe that there is only one substance or property in the Universe, be it...
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  • May 23 : Is Free Will an Illusion?
    We like to think of ourselves as enjoying unrestricted freedom of the will.  But modern science increasingly teaches us that our choices...
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  • March 29 : Is Free Will an Illusion?
    We like to think of ourselves as enjoying unrestricted freedom of the will.  But modern science increasingly teaches us that our choices...
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  • March 01 : Hume
    David Hume's was a superb essayist, a brilliant philosopher, and a world-class bon vivant. His philosophical views in ethics, epistemology...
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  • February 17 : The Insanity Defense
    Ken and John debate (use?) the insanity defense. What difference does it make if the person who commits a crime is, in one way or another, mentally...
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