I Want You to Get the Pot When He Preached, Tay. I Want His Family. Tay

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I like this clip because of the mention of killing someone's family, even though they really didn't do anything right. A there 's almost just a base line assumption that in order to deserve blame for something you actually have to have done it. I wrap up this edition verya gai wiw iwie iwiw wn en ent en wenn e wen went en wentnn en. Wnt en wentn oii iwwiwi awwwn en went en wentn e enwent wen. Why we got the ship, why weg ship. And so maybe, yes, o lat's so.

Tamler and David discuss whether giving up our belief in free will makes us more likely to abandon our moral standards.

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“You Can’t Handle the Truth!”

Jesse Bering “Scientists say free will probably doesn’t exist, but urge: “Don’t stop believing!” Excellent accessible description of the Vohs and Schooler study that we discuss.

Tamler’s blog post in Psychology Today criticizing the pessimistic views of Smilansky and Vohs and Schooler: "No Soul? I can live with that. No free will? Aaahhhh!".

“Eat the poo-poo.” “Like ice cream…”

Josh Knobe on free will and experimental philosophy.

Tamler's dialogue on some of the problems with current experimental work on free will: "Free Will and Experimental Philosophy: An Intervention."

“I want him dead! I want his family dead!”

Uhlmann, Zhu, Pizarro & Bloom “Blood is Thicker: Moral Spillover Effects Based on Kinship”

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