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168. Daniel Dennett & Gregg Caruso — Just Deserts: Debating Free Will (moderated by Michael Shermer)

The Michael Shermer Show

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Is There a Justification for the Desert System?

Dirk Altschuler: The idea of basic moral desert is a red herring. There's no such thing. Banish it. Els, it is easy to define. It's well defined. No, it exists. Where we disagree is on whether or not we're justified in serving a the desert system and whether the desert system a presupposes certain kinds of things.

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