The Free Will Show

In this episode, we talk Mikayla Kelley about the distinction between basic and nonbasic action and different accounts of nonbasic action.

Mikayla's website: https://www.mikaylakelley.com/

Mikayla's paper: How to Perform a Nonbasic Action

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In this episode, we talk with Alison Fernandes about cases of time travel and how knowledge constrains deliberation.

Alison's website: http://www.alisonfernandes.net/

Alison's paper, "Freedom, Self-Prediction, and the Possibility of Time Travel": https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11098-018-1181-9

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In this episode, we talk with Jeffrey Koperski about whether physics rules out libertarian free will.

Jeff's website: https://appsc2.svsu.edu/lookup/bio/koperski

Jeff's book: Physics and Free Will: The Science of Libertarian Freedom

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In this episode, we talk with Joshua Shepherd about the structure of agency and creative intelligence.

Josh's website: https://sites.google.com/site/shepherdphilosophy/home?authuser=0

Josh's Book: The Shape of Agency

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In this episode, we talk with Marcus Arvan about how the simulation hypothesis explains various philosophical phenomena, including free will.

Marcus's website: https://www.marcusarvan.net/

Marcus's paper: A New Theory of Free Will

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In this episode, we talk with Barbara Vetter about abilities and how we come to know what abilities we have.

Barbara's website: http://barbaravetter.de/

Barbara's first book, Potentiality: From Dispositions to Modality: https://academic.oup.com/book/26364?login=false

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In this episode, we talk with Huzeyfe Demirtas about responsibility for consequences and how that relates to autonomous AI systems.

Huzeyfe's Website: https://www.huzeyfedemirtas.com/

Huzeyfe's paper, "Against the Degree-Scope Response to Moral Luck, or A Farewell to Responsibility for Consequences": https://philpapers.org/rec/DEMATD-7

Huzeyfe's paper, "AI Responsibility Gap: Not New, Inevitable, Unproblematic": https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-024-09814-1

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In this episode, we talk with Shaun Nichols about folk beliefs about determinism and causal explanation.

Shaun's website: https://sites.google.com/view/shaunbnichols/home

Shaun's book, Bound: Essays on Free Will and Responsibility: https://academic.oup.com/book/9296

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In this episode, we talk with Andre Rusavuk about the problem of divine luck.

Andre's website: https://philpeople.org/profiles/andre-rusavuk

Andre's paper, "Divine Actions and the Challenge of Present Luck": https://place.asburyseminary.edu/faithandphilosophy/vol40/iss3/1/

Andre's paper, "The Luckiest of All Possible Beings: Divine Perfections and Constitutive Luck": https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11841-023-00960-5

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This episode starts a new series of the podcast that won’t have any particular guiding theme but instead looks at various topics that scholars are working on. In this episode, we talk with Nathan Bray and Stephen Kershnar about whether God is morally responsible. 

Nathan's Website: https://philpeople.org/profiles/nathan-bray-1

Stephen's Website: https://philpeople.org/profiles/stephen-kershnar

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