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I tusentals år har människor diskuterat den fria viljans existens. Var står vi idag? Hur påverkar vår syn på fri vilja våra relationer, våra rättssystem och vår moral? Vad händer om kontrollen vi tror vi har över våra liv visar sig vara en illusion?

Producent och programledare: Viktor Hariz
Programledare: Fanny Hedenmo

Medverkande

• Jim Al-Khalili - professor emeritus i fysik vid universitetet i Surrey

• Gregg Caruso - professor i etik vid Fairfield University

• Robert Sapolsky - professor i biologi, neurologi och neurokirurgi vid Stanford University

Böcker

• ”Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will” av Robert Sapolsky (2023)

• ”Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst” av Robert Sapolsky (2017)

Artiklar

• As If You Had a Choice - Sam Scott (Stanford Magazine, 2023)

• Robert Sapolsky Doesn’t Believe in Free Will. (But Feel Free to Disagree.) - Hope Reese (New York Times, 2023)

• Do You Have Free Will? - Kieran Setiya (The Atlantic, 2023)

• Consciousness: Who’s at the Wheel? - Riccardo Manzotti and Tim Parks (NYROB, 2017)

• An Identity of My Own - David Pears (LRB, 1989)

• The Case Against B.F. Skinner - Noam Chomsky (NYROB, 1971)

• Is the Universe a Computer? - Steven Weinberg (NYROB, 2002)

• Why would Mother Nature bother? - Jerry Fodor (LRB, 2003)

• Your Fancy-Pants Brain - James Gleick (NYROB, 2024)

• The Fate of Free Will - James Gleick (NYROB, 2024)

• The Unceremonious Death of Free Will - Joachim I. Krueger; David J. Grüning (The American Journal of Psychology, 2024)

• How can determinists believe in free will? - Nikhil Krishnan (The New Yorker, 2023)

• Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will Reviewed by John Martin Fischer (Notre Dame, 2023)

• Stanford scientist, after decades of study, concludes: We don’t have free will - Corinne Purtill (LA Times, 2023)

• Does Quantum Mechanics Rule Out Free Will? - John Horgan (Scientific American, 2022)

• From chaos to free will - George Ellis (Aeon, 2020)

• Why free will is beyond physics - Philip Ball (Physics World, 2021)

• Why the Classical Argument Against Free Will Is a Failure - Mark Balaguer (MIT Press, 2022)

• There’s No Such Thing as Free Will - Stephen Cave (The Atlantic, 2016)

• Determinism vs. free will: A scientific showdown - Diana Gitig (Arstechnica, 2023)

• 3 free will arguments, explained by physicist Sean Carroll (Big Think)

• Do we have free will – a physicist’s perspective? - Jim Al-Khalili (Blog)

• The man whose brain tumour 'turned him into a paedophile' - Kashmira Gander (The Independent, 2016)

• Right Orbitofrontal Tumor With Pedophilia Symptom and Constructional Apraxia Sign - Jeffrey M. Burns, MD; Russell H. Swerdlow, MD (Arch Neurol. 2003)

• What Does a Guilty Brain Look Like? - Lindsay Gray (Scientific American, 2020)

• The Brain on the Stand - Jeffrey Rosen (New York Times, 2007)

• The Admissibility of Brain Scans in Criminal Trials: The Case of Positron Emission Tomography - Susan Rushing (Court Review, 2013)

• Free Will (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2002)

• Why neuroscience does not disprove free will - Marcel Brass et. al. (Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2019)

• Unconscious determinants of free decisions in the human brain - Chun Siong Soon et. al. (Nat Neurosci. 2008)

• Straffets grunder — historisk bakgrund - ERLAND ASPELIN (Svensk Juristtidning, 1999)

• Trauma exposure, posttraumatic stress, and comorbidities in female adolescent offenders: findings and implications from recent studies - David W Foy et. al. (Eur J Psychotraumatol. 2012)

• Women prisoners, mental health, violence and abuse - Morag MacDonald (International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 2013)

• Exploring gender differences in trauma exposure and the emergence of symptoms of PTSD among incarcerated men and women. - Komarovskaya, I. A et. al. (Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology, 2011)

• The Value of Believing in Free Will : Encouraging a Belief in Determinism Increases Cheating - Kathleen D. Vohs and Jonathan W. Schooler (Psychological Science, 2008)

Ljud och bild

• Does Physics Allow for Free Will? (Why This Universe, 2021)

• Free Will - In Our Time (BBC, 2011)

• Noam Chomsky - Freedom of the Will

• What can neuroscience tell us about crime? - Legal Talk (2017)

• Noam Chomsky - Free Will I

• Free Will Worth Wanting - Philosophy for our times

• ”The Wire” creator David Simon: Journalists & the Public Square

• Determinism vs Free Will: Crash Course Philosophy #24 

Musik

• Podington Bear - Dry Air

• Paul Leonard Morgan - Odd

• Max Richter - De Profoundis

• Ben Salisbury - Plainsong

• Kid Loco - Theme From The Graffiti Artist

• Marcus Bagala - Untitledthingthing

• Cristobal Tapia De Veer - The Public

• Colin Stetson - Mothers And Daughters

• Kryztof Penderecki - Polymorphia

• Cristobal Tapia De Veer - Buon Giorno

• Allison Leyton-Brown - Featherweight

• Cliff Martinez - Speight Lived Here

• Star Hopper - Pending Supernova

• Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Clue One

• Star Hopper - Through The Heliopause

• Star Hopper - The Running Blue Cloud

• Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow - The Turing Test

• Michael Andrews - Peter And Sylvie

• Marcus Bagala - Frets: Problem After Problem

• Marcus Bagala - Boxes: Autumnal Moping

• WOW MOM WOW - Tryptoreal

• Martin D. Fowler - Delaying The Inevitable

• Cliff Martinez - Not Leaving This Circus

• Cristobal Tapia De Veer - Pianissimo

• Jon Brion - Coincidences

• Marcus Bagala - Cascading Bells Too

• Clint Mansell - The Last Man

• Podington Bear - Cm

• Marcus Bagala - Cascading Bells

• Cristobal Tapia De Veer - The Public

• Michael McCann - The Mole

• Vince Pope - Who Are You

• Martin D Fowler - Delaying The Inevitable

• Cliff Martinez - I'm Sick

• Jon Brion - Cubes

• Lorn - Unraveled

• Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Empty Places (reprise)

• Star Hopper - A Celestial Marble

• Carter Burwell - Fade Out The End

• Vince Pope - Starting Over

• Sophie Harris - Travelling Coffin 

• Cliff Martinez - I'm In The Pink

• Vince Pope - Fake

• AJJ - Still Peoplin'