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Feb 2020
23m 53s

Christian List on Free Will

EDMONDS AND WARBURTON
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What is free will? Do we have it? These are difficult questions. Neuroscience seems to point in the direction of determinism. But Christian List suggests that there might still be room for genuine free will. 

 

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