The Free Will Show

This episode is the first in a new season on the puzzle of divine foreknowledge and human free will. Our guest,  Simon Kittle, introduces the problem of freedom and foreknowledge and gives an overview of the responses to this problem that we’ll cover in more detail in the remaining episodes of this season.

Simon's website: https://www.simonkittle.com/

Simon's book (with Leigh Vicens), God and Human Freedom: https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/abs/god-and-human-freedom/D0EE63BB14A6F9C4F85DB3CFE347E891


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In this bonus episode, we talk with Garrett Pendergraft about his new book, Free Will and Human Agency: 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Though Experiments. We’ll be back next month with season 5, which focuses on the problem of human freedom and divine foreknowledge.

Garrett's website: https://seaver.pepperdine.edu/academics/faculty/garrett-pendergraft/

Garrett's book: https://www.routledge.com/Free-Will-and-Human-Agency-50-Puzzles-Paradoxes-and-Thought-Experiments/Pendergraft/p/book/9780367641948


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In this episode, we talk with Marcela Herdova about moral luck and transformative experiences—the kind of experiences that fundamentally change who we are. 

Marcela's website: https://marcelaherdova.com/

Marcela's paper, "Transformative Moral Luck": https://www.pdcnet.org/msp/content/msp_2019_0043_0162_0180


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In this episode, we talk with Santiago Amaya about an argument for the conclusion that "free will" is a vague term. We also talk about what Santiago thinks are some of the implications of this conclusion for the free will debate.

Santiago's PhilPeople profile: https://philpeople.org/profiles/santiago-amaya

Santiago's podcast, "Free Will Matters": https://freewill.uniandes.edu.co/podcast/


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In this episode, we talk with John Stigall about omissions and Frankfurt cases. John defends the view that, while we can be morally responsible for performing positive actions even if we lack the ability to do otherwise, moral responsibility for omissions requires the ability to do otherwise.

John's website: https://philpeople.org/profiles/john-stigall

John's article, "Causation, Norms, and Omissions: A Study of Causal Judgments (with Randolph Clarke, Joshua Shepherd, Robyn Repko Waller, and Chris Zarpentine): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09515089.2013.815099


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In this episode, we talk with Sofia Jeppsson about why we should not take mental illness to function as an exemption from moral responsibility and why we shouldn’t take what P. F. Strawson called the “objective stance” towards those who are mentally ill.

Sofia's departmental website: https://www.umu.se/en/staff/sofia-jeppsson/

Sofia's personal website: https://www.sofiajeppsson.com/

Sofia's article, "Psychosis and Intelligibility": https://muse.jhu.edu/article/806103


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In this episode, we talk with Gabriel De Marco about various manipulation cases and different ways philosophers have responded to them. We also talk about real-life cases of interventions that are similar to the manipulations in philosophical thought experiments.

Gabriel's website: https://www.neuroethics.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-gabriel-de-marco?filter_types-688386[]=book,chapter

Gabe's paper, "Nonconsensual Neurocorrectives, Bypassing, and Free Action" (open access): https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11098-021-01740-y

Another of Gabe's papers (the one with the "Matt" case), "Historical Moral Responsibility and Manipulation via Deletion" (open access): https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10670-021-00409-6


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In this episode, we talk with Andrew Latham and Hannah Tierney about their recent collaborative work on manipulation arguments against compatibilism. They offer a novel response to those arguments by drawing from the work of P. F. Strawson.

Andrew's website: https://andrewjlatham.wixsite.com/andrewlatham

Hannah's website: https://www.hannahtierney.com/

Andrew and Hannah's paper, "Defusing Existential and Universal Threats to Compatibilism: A Strawsonian Dilemma for Manipulation Arguments": https://philpapers.org/rec/LATDEA

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In this episode, we talk with Daniel Miller about when and why ignorance functions as an excuse from blameworthiness, and how this is related to a phenomenon called “tracing”.

Dan's website: http://www.danieljamesmiller.com/

Dan's paper, "Reasonable Foreseeability and Blameless Ignorance": https://philpapers.org/archive/MILRFA-3.pdf

Dan's entry on ignorance and blame at 1000-Word Philosophy: https://1000wordphilosophy.com/2019/02/14/ignorance-and-blame/


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In this episode, we talk with Robert Hartman about the problems of free will and moral luck and how they are related to each other.

Bob's website: http://www.robertjhartman.com/

Bob's book, In Defense of Moral Luck: https://www.routledge.com/In-Defense-of-Moral-Luck-Why-Luck-Often-Affects-Praiseworthiness-and-Blameworthiness/Hartman/p/book/9780367372415

Bob's article, "Constitutive Moral Luck and Strawson's Argument for the Impossibility of Moral Responsibility": https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-american-philosophical-association/article/abs/constitutive-moral-luck-and-strawsons-argument-for-the-impossibility-of-moral-responsibility/F20DA7AD595F2D14E2FE2CE3E3F6ED97


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