Professor Robert Sapolsky is a Professor of Biology, Neurology, and Surgery at Stanford University. He is the author of multiple books, including A Primate’s Memoir, Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers, Behave, and Determined. Professor Kevin Mitchell is a Professor of Genetics and Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin, whose research concerns the relationship between the wiring of the brain and the human faculties. His books include Innate and Free Agents. Today’s debate was about whether the empirical literature in the biological sciences allows us to make progress on the free will debate.

Conversation Outline:

00:00 Introduction

02:28 Opening Statement: Kevin Mitchell

16:26 Opening Statement: Robert Sapolsky

27:32 First Round of Questioning

45:56 Second Round of Questioning

1:04:56 How can we make evolutionary sense of illusory agency?

1:06:13 How can we make sense of our accomplishments if we have no free will?

1:08:21 Comparisons with Dennett and Hofstadter

1:12:28 Closing thoughts

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Erscheinungs­datum: 18.11.2023, 19:00:00