Free Will (or Not?), Part 1
Today we'll begin our discussion on individual free will through the lens of the Philosophy of Mind. We'll ask how - or IF - it is possible for human beings to make truly free choices.
And we'll talk pancakes.
***SEASON ONE READINGS AND SOURCES***
A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities, by Pierre-Simon Laplace
Consciousness Explained, by Daniel C. Dennett (Paul Weiner, Illustrator)
Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting, by Daniel C. Dennett
Freedom Evolves, by Daniel C. Dennett
Meditations on First Philosophy, by René Descartes
Mystery of the Mind: A Critical Study of Consciousness and the Human Brain, by Wilder Penfield
Subjectivity, Realism, and Postmodernism: The Recovery of the World in Recent Philosophy, by Frank B. Farrell
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