The Free Will Show

In this episode, we talk with Anneli Jefferson about instrumentalist accounts of moral responsibility and some challenges for the view, including issues related to blaming the dead.

Anneli's website: https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/jeffersona1

Anneli's paper, "Instrumentalism about Moral Responsibility Revisited": https://academic.oup.com/pq/article/69/276/555/5266881?login=false

Anneli's paper, "Blaming the Dead": https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ejop.12947

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In this episode, we talk with Josh May about issues in neuroethics and the law and also about mental disorders and moral responsibility.

Josh's website: https://www.joshdmay.com/

Josh's book, Neuroethics: Agency in the Age of Brain Sciecne: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/neuroethics-9780197648094?cc=us&lang=en&

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In this episode, we talk with Meghan Griffith about developing a narrative capacity and how it relates to becoming morally responsible.

Megan's website: https://www.davidson.edu/people/meghan-griffith

Megan's paper, "Narrative Capacity and Moral Responsibility": https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/social-philosophy-and-policy/article/abs/narrative-capacity-and-moral-responsibility/B1685573B9DFCAEF6D0B22EA54222D46

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Cohosts Taylor Cyr and Matt Flummer describe their new book How Free Are We? Conversations from the Free Will Show.

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In this episode we talk with Justin Coates about the nature of ambivalence and arguments for and against it.

Justin's website: https://djustincoates.com/index.html

Justin's book, In Praise of Ambivalence: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/in-praise-of-ambivalence-9780197652398?q=justin%20coates&lang=en&cc=us#

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In this episode, we talk with Tommie Shelby about whether and when states lack the standing to punish. We also discuss Tommie's book on prison abolitionism, which makes the case for prison reform without accepting that incarceration is illegitimate.

Tommie's website: https://www.tommieshelby.com/

Tommie's book, The Idea of Prison Abolition: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691229751/the-idea-of-prison-abolition

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In this episode, we talk with Stephanie Collins and Niels de Haan about whether structuralism or historicism best accounts for group responsibility.

Stephanie's website: https://stephaniecollins.xyz/

Niels's website: https://sites.google.com/view/niels-de-haan/homepage

Their paper, "Group Responsibility and Historicism": https://academic.oup.com/pq/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pq/pqad104/7329479

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In this episode, we talk with Joseph Metz about moral luck and responsibility for omissions.

Joe's website: https://www.joseph-metz.com/home

Joe's paper, “Omissions, Moral Luck, and Minding the (Epistemic) Gap”: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/canadian-journal-of-philosophy/article/omissions-moral-luck-and-minding-the-epistemic-gap/F95FD50121A509FB66C3691D49D91B03

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In this episode, we talk with Mihailis Diamantis about the nature of corporations and some similarities between corporate and individual criminal responsibility.

Mihailis's website: https://law.uiowa.edu/people/mihailis-diamantis

Mihailis's paper, "Corporate Criminal Minds": https://ndlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/NDL509.pdf

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In this episode, we talk with Raff Donelson about several different topics, including his response to free will skepticism, whether its okay to make people responsible to make reparations for historical injustices, and his recent work on medieval criminal trials involving non-human animals.

Raff's website: https://www.raffdonelson.com/

Raff's paper, "Reparation, Responsibility, and Formalism: A Reply to Carnes": https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3717192

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