The Free Will Show

In this episode, we talk with Pamela Hieronymi about P. F. Strawson’s classic paper “Freedom and Resentment,” his ethical naturalism, and her recent Gifford Lectures.

Pamela's website: https://hieronymi.humspace.ucla.edu/

Pamela's book: Freedom, Resentment, and the Metaphysics of Morals

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In this episode we talk with Chandra Sripada about the distortion model of addiction and how it is different from the standard, desire based model.

Chandra's website: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sripada/

Chandra's paper: Impaired control in addiction involves cognitive distortions and unreliable self-control, not compulsive desires and overwhelmed self-control

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In this episode, we talk with Elinor Mason about her work on taking responsibility and how it differs from other ways of being blameworthy.

Elinore's website: https://sites.google.com/site/elinormasonphilosophy/home

Elinore's book: Ways to Be Blameworthy

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In this episode, we talk with Wayne Wu about his work on automaticity, attention, and memory in the philosophy of action. 

Wayne's website: https://www.waynewu.net/

Wayne's book, Movements of the Mind: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/movements-of-the-mind-9780192866899

Wayne's new book, Attention: https://www.routledge.com/Attention/Wu/p/book/9781032121772

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In this episode we talk to Kelly McCormick about the problem of blame and her reasons for thinking that we shouldn’t eliminate blame from our lives.

Kelly's website: https://addran.tcu.edu/view/kelly-mccormick

Kelly's book: The Problem of Blame

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In this episode, we talk with Eddy Nahmias about the experimental philosophy of free will and his own compatibilist view.

Eddy's Website: https://eddynahmias.com/

Eddy's paper (with Nadelhoffer and Morris): Is Incompatibilism Intuitive?

Eddy's paper with Oisin Deery: Why the Manipulation Argument Fails: Determinism Does Not Entail Perfect Prediction

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In this episode, we talk with Neal Tognazzini about time travel and free will as well as some non-standard threats to free will from other areas of metaphysics.

Neal's website: https://sites.google.com/view/neal-tognazzini/home?authuser=0

Neal's paper (with Andrew Law), "Free Will and Two Local Determinisms": https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10670-018-9992-9

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In this episode, we talk with Matt King about various kinds of responsibility and how they all share in what he calls the basic responsibility relation.

Matt's website: https://dr-matt-king.squarespace.com/

Matt's book: Simply Responsible

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In this episode, we talk with Sabrina Little about a puzzle about free will in the context of moral education.

Sabrina's website: https://sabrinalittle.com/

Sabrina's book: The Examined Run

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In this episode, we talk with Helen Steward about her view that agency itself, not just free agency, is incompatible with determinism. 

Helen's website: https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/philosophy/staff/1167/professor-helen-steward-fba

Helen's book: A Metaphysics for Freedom

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