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Podcast audio:

In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Tristan de Liège, Mike Mazza, Gregory Salmieri and Ben Bayer discuss Kevin Mitchell’s book, Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will.

Topics include:

The locus of free will;

Moral responsibility;

The relevance of quantum mechanics;

Determinism;

Aristotle;

Randomness and indeterminacy;

“Agent causation” vs entity causation;

Blank slate.

Resources:

Harry Binswanger’s essay “Volition as Cognitive Self-Regulation.”

This episode was recorded on October 9, 2025, and posted on October 24, 2025.