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Thomas Pink on Free Will
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Length:
18 minutes
Released:
Mar 9, 2008
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Podcast episode
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We often blame people for what they do or fail to do. But that implies that they were free to choose whether or not to act in the way they did. At the same time science seems to reveal prior causes of all our actions. There seems little or no room for free will. In this episode of Philosophy Bites Thomas Pink, author of Free Will: A Very Short Introduction, discusses the Free Will Problem and outlines his own approach to it.
Released:
Mar 9, 2008
Format:
Podcast episode
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