Can experiments settle the free will debate? | Julian Baggini, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Sarah Garfinkel
Philosophy For Our Times
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How to Eliminate Bias From Scientific Inquiry
I think a lot of people are of the intuition that bias isn't something that you can ever entirely eliminate instead you should try to recognize and account for it. There seem to be some biases which could in theory be good biases like we all mostly in the stream probably have a bias towards wanting to know the truth for instance. Do you think it's possible to eliminate these from any field of scientific inquiry or is it always going to be there? I think and it's very much tied to the idea of the topic of the debate which is my research shows that we can represent in our brains and in our bodies different drives instincts which are not necessarily susceptible to conscious reflection and self-report so in
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