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Rationally Speaking #39 - The Science and Philosophy of Free Will


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In this episode we tackle the never ending debate about free will, which David Hume famously defined as "a power of acting or of not acting, according to the determination of the will." We do this with a couple of twists. We begin by examining the concept of free will from the standard philosophical perspective, then ask what — if anything — modern neuroscience can tell us about it, and come back to the interface between philosophy and science to explore how the two approaches may complement each other.
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