Is Your Choice on Which Job to Get Married Deliberately Determined by Fact?

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I don't think the story of our moral judgments or criminal judgment is actulygoing to have much to do with race and gender. Tat that these effects don't play as much of a role as people think they do. But i also don't thinkt that it requires you to to deny the importan sote. I mean, in the case of getting married, for both of you as just whoever would say yes. So really, it was outside your control,. even though you deliberated. And andims like madness.

Can a fully determined creature deliberate? How big a role does conscious reasoning play in moral judgment and everyday life? Are we responsible for our thoughts and actions? Paul Bloom rejoins us against his better judgment to discuss his book "Just Babies" and his recent article in The Atlantic that set the internet on the fire and riled up the likes of Sam Harris and Jerry Coyne. Plus, what's the difference (if any) between getting into a Star Trek transporter and getting an axe to the head, and why does David know so much about boy bands?

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