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June 22, 2019 —
Robert Wright & Gideon Rosen
The Wright Show
- A brief primer on the free will vs. determinism debate
- Are moral responsibility and determinism compatible?
- Is punishment a tragic necessity or a moral good?
- Gideon tries to convince Bob that compatibilism is coherent
- Gideon's distinctive take on compatibilism
- A thought experiment about the moral culpability of an ancient slaveholder
- Free will and the mind-body problem
- Buddhist ideas about punishment
November 23, 2017 —
Robert Wright & Shaun Nichols
The Wright Show
- Pondering free will before Thanksgiving's excesses
- Shaun: Determinism is too complicated to be intuitive
- The benefits of blame
- Is "free" will just a matter of semantics?
- What game theory experiments tell us about moralistic anger
- Shaun: It's okay to use determinism to forgive yourself
- Do the "uncaused effects" of quantum physics bear on the free will question?
November 17, 2018 —
Robert Wright & Eddy Nahmias
The Wright Show
- Explaining "compatibilism," the view that there's no conflict between free will and determinism
- Without free will, what happens to moral responsibility?
- Eddy tells Bob he errs in saying determinism means events are "inevitable"
- Free will is hard to imagine, but not nonsensical
- Why most philosophers today are compatibilists
- Bob: Compatibilists are just playing word games
- Were prisoners destined from birth to wind up in prison?
- Waiting for the "Einstein of consciousness"
March 23, 2018 —
Robert Wright & Massimo Pigliucci
The Wright Show
- Massimo's new edited volume, Science Unlimited?: The Challenges of Scientism
- What is scientism?
- Science and the challenge of studying subjective experience
- And about those pesky fundamental questions of existence...
- How philosophical thought underpins all research methodology
- Massimo: Core concepts across science have competing interpretations
- The importance of distinguishing "is" from "ought"
- What neuroscience can never explain about human consciousness
January 01, 2018 —
Robert Wright & Timothy O'Connor
The Wright Show
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