The Free Will Show

In this episode, Alicia Finch explains an intriguing argument for logical fatalism—the view that the laws of logic preclude out having free will—as well as four types of response to the argument.

Alicia’s website: https://www.aliciafinch.com/

Recommended resources:

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Fatalism”: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fatalism/

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Cohosts Taylor Cyr and Matt Flummer describe Season 1 of The Free Will Show.

Taylor’s website: taylorwcyr.com

Matt’s website: matthewflummer.weebly.com/

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In this episode, John Martin Fischer explains three potential threats to our having free will in the sense of having the freedom to do otherwise than what we actually do: the threats from logical fatalism, divine foreknowledge, and causal determinism. John ends by giving a teaser for an alternative conception of free will.

John Martin Fischer’s website: https://alaw003.wixsite.com/johnmartinfischer

Recommended resources:

The book that John mentions at the end of the episode is Four Views on Free Will: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Four+Views+on+Free+Will-p-9781405134866

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In this episode, cohosts Taylor Cyr and Matt Flummer present an introduction to the philosophy of free will, including a discussion of differing conceptions of free will, how free will is related to moral responsibility, and why it matters if we have free will.

Recommended resources:

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Free Will”: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freewill/

The study by psychologists from Brown University is: “Free Will without Metaphysics” by Andrew Monroe and Bertram Malle, available here: http://research.clps.brown.edu/soccogsci/Publications/Pubs/Monroe_Malle_2015_Free_will_without_metaphysics.pdf

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In this episode, cohosts Taylor Cyr and Matt Flummer introduce themselves and this podcast. Along the way they discuss what the discipline of philosophy is and why they’re making this podcast.

Taylor’s website: taylorwcyr.com

Matt’s website: matthewflummer.weebly.com/

Also, Matt forgot to mention the name of his college: Porterville College

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