Episode 2: The "Dangerous Truth" about Free Will (Free Will and Morality, Pt. 2)
Summary: <p>Tamler and David discuss whether giving up our belief in free will makes us more likely to abandon our moral standards. </p><h3>Links</h3><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><a href="http://%20http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j2F4VcBmeo">“You Can’t Handle the Truth!” </a><strong></strong></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">Jesse Bering “<a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/bering-in-mind/2010/04/06/scientists-say-free-will-probably-doesnt-exist-but-urge-dont-stop-believing/">Scientists say free will probably doesn’t exist, but urge: “Don’t stop believing!”</a> Excellent accessible description of the Vohs and Schooler study that we discuss. </p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">Tamler’s blog post in <em>Psychology Today</em> criticizing the pessimistic views of Smilansky and Vohs and Schooler: <a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/experiments-in-philosophy/200804/no-soul-i-can-live-no-free-will-ahhhhh%20" target="_blank">"No Soul? I can live with that. No free will? Aaahhhh!</a>". </p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjnrLt3VuSM" target="_blank">“Eat the poo-poo.” “Like ice cream…” </a> </p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">Josh Knobe on<a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/experimental-philosophy/" target="_blank"> free will and experimental philosophy</a>. </p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">Tamler's dialogue on some of the problems with current experimental work on free will: <a href="http://agencyandresponsibility.typepad.com/files/free-will-and-experimental-philosophy-an-intervention.pdf">"Free Will and Experimental Philosophy: An Intervention."</a></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UceGF3M56bE">“I want him dead! I want his family dead!”</a> </p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">Uhlmann, Zhu, Pizarro & Bloom <a href="http://static.squarespace.com/static/4ff4905c84aee104c1f4f2c2/5005b8e4e4b0af37b903b1df/5005b8e4e4b0af37b903b1e1/1339098268557/">“Blood is Thicker: Moral Spillover Effects Based on Kinship”</a> </p><p><a rel="payment" href="https://www.patreon.com/verybadwizards">Support Very Bad Wizards</a></p>
