The Free Will Show

The Free Will Show

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The Free Will Show episodes

  • Episode 110: John Duns Scotus with Thomas Williams

    In this episode, we talk with Thomas Williams about John Duns Scotus and his views on free will and how they differ from Anselm's and Aquinas's views.

    Thomas's website: https://www.profthomaswilliams.com/

    Thomas's chapter on Scotus's views of free will can be found in the Routledge Companion to Free Will

    Thomas also wrote the SEP article: John Duns Scotus

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    52 min
  • Episode 109: Thomas Aquinas with Harm Goris

    In this episode, we talk with Harm Goris about Thomas Aquinas’s views of free will and human agency.

    Harm's website: https://tilburguniversity.academia.edu/HarmGoris

    Harm's chapter on Aquinas can be found in the Routledge Companion to Free Will.

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    44 min
  • Episode 108: Anselm of Canterbury with Sandra Visser

    In this episode, we talk with Sandra Visser about Anselm of Canterbury and his views on human and divine freedom.

    Sandra's website: https://hope.edu/directory/people/visser-sandra/index.html

    Sandra's chapter on Anselm in the Routledge Companion to Free Will: https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Free-Will/Timpe-Griffith-Levy/p/book/9780367869977


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    36 min
  • Episode 107: Ibn Sīnā with Jon McGinnis

    In this episode, we talk with Jon McGinnis about Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) and his views about divine and human agency.

    Jon's website: https://www.medieval.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/jon-mcginnis

    Jon's book, Avicenna: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/avicenna-9780195331479?cc=us&lang=en&


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    1 hr 2 min
  • Episode 106: Boethius with John Marenbon

    In this episode, we talk with John Marenbon about free will and foreknowledge in Boethius's most famous work, the Consolation of Philosophy.

    John's PhilPeople profile: https://philpeople.org/profiles/john-marenbon

    John's Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Boethius: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/boethius/


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    46 min
  • Episode 105: Augustine of Hippo with Jesse Couenhoven

    In this episode, we talk with Jesse Coeuenhoven about Augustine’s views on free will, moral responsibility, and predestination. 


    Jesse's website: https://www1.villanova.edu/university/liberal-arts-sciences/programs/theology/faculty/[email protected]&xsl=bio_long

    Jesse's book: Striken by Sin, Cured by Christ: Agency, Necessity, and Culpability in Augustinian Theology


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    1 hr 7 min
  • Episode 104: Plotinus with Anna Viatkina

    In this episode, we talk with Anna Viatkina about Plotinus’s views on freedom and moral responsibility and how they relate to ancient Stoic and contemporary rational abilities views. 

    Anna's Google Scholar page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KJmxq2gAAAAJ&hl=ru

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    1 hr 2 min
  • Episode 103: Epicureanism and Stoicism with Tim O'Keefe

    In this episode, we talk with Tim O'Keefe about Epicurean and Stoic views of freedom and determinism.

    Tim's website: https://philpeople.org/profiles/tim-o-keefe

    Tim's book, Epicurus on Freedom: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/epicurus-on-freedom/F5058A8C45DB77CE70CA0BF56A3116F9

    Tim's entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on "Ancient Theories of Freedom and Determinism": https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freedom-ancient/


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    47 min
  • Episode 102: Aristotle with Susan Sauvé Meyer

    In this episode, we talk with Susan Sauvé Meyer about Aristotle’s views on moral responsibility, especially his conception of voluntariness.

    Susan's website: https://philosophy.sas.upenn.edu/people/susan-sauv%C3%A9-meyer

    Susan's book: How to Flourish: An Ancient Guide to Living Well


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    35 min
  • Episode 101: Plato with Eric Brown

    In this episode, we talk with Eric Brown about Plato’s views on freedom, moral psychology, and responsibility.

    Eric's website: https://sites.google.com/view/ericbrownphilosophy/home

    Eric’s entry on Plato’s Republic in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato-ethics-politics/


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    40 min

About The Free Will Show

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Do any of us really have free will? What does it mean to have free will, anyway? Is free will compatible with determinism? Hasn’t science disproved free will? How could we have free will if God exists…

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