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#419 Christian List: Why Free Will Is Real

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The Challenge From Radical Materialism

The challenge from radical materialism is meant to be a challenge for the claim that humans are intentional agents. I think virtually everything that we know from the psychological social and human sciences tells us that at the very most neuroscience can give us some useful insights into implementation mechanisms by which the brain implements certain cognitive capacities. For me the burden of proof would lie with the proponents of that challenge they'd really have to give us compelling evidence that we can systematically globally understand human behavior without reference to those intentional agential notions.

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