Free Will Matters

Randolph Clarke

Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University. His research has focused primarily on human agency, but he has also written on practical reason, mental causation, and dispositions. Randolph is the author of Omissions: Agency, Metaphysics, and Responsibility (OUP) and his work has appeared in Noûs, Mind, Philosophical Studies, and elsewhere.

Dana Nelkin

Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, and an Affiliate Professor at the University of San Diego School of Law. Her areas of research include moral psychology, ethics, bioethics, and philosophy of law. Dana is the author of Making Sense of Freedom and Responsibility (OUP) and her work has been published in Noûs, Ethics, The Philosophical Review, and The Journal of Philosophy among others.

Daniel Speak

Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. He specializes in metaphysics (especially the metaphysics of free will) and the philosophy of religion. He also has research and teaching interests in ethics and epistemology. Daniel is the author of The Problem of Evil (Polity) and has published articles in The Oxford Handbook of Free Will (2nd Edition), Res Philosophica, The Philosophical Quarterly and elsewhere.

Eddy Nahmias

Professor and chair of the Philosophy Department at Georgia State University and associate faculty member of the Neuroscience Institute at Georgia State University. His research is devoted to the study of human agency (what it is, how it is possible, and how it accords with scientific accounts of human nature) focusing on debates about free will and moral responsibility. Eddy is co-editor of Moral Psychology: Historical and Contemporary Readings (Wiley-Blackwell) and his work has been published in Philosophical Studies, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, and Cognition, among others.

Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. She works on causation, agency, free will, moral responsibility, and other issues at the intersection of metaphysics, the philosophy of action, and moral theory. Carolina is the author of Causation and Free Will (OUP) and her work has been published in Noûs, The Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Review, among others.

The problem of free will has been at the center of many discussions in western philosophy for the last 20 centuries. But in recent years the problem has reappeared in a fresh form. There are new and exciting developments in the field that make this a fascinating topic of conversation. For this podcast we have invited various philosophers who work in free will. Philosophy might be a daunting thing, but with their help we will get to know better the what, the how and the why of free will. Welcome. 

The problem of free will has been at the center of many discussions in western philosophy for the last 20 centuries. But in recent years the problem has reappeared in a fresh form. There are new and exciting developments in the field that make this a fascinating topic of conversation. For this podcast we have invited various philosophers who work in free will. Philosophy might be a daunting thing, but with their help we will get to know better than what the How and the why of free will welcome.