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Episode 57: The Reason View with Susan Wolf

The Free Will Show

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The Importance of Truth in Human Relations

I think one of the things that changes is the idea of what responsibility is. And to see how things change when you de-emphasize the role of rational agency, rational deliberation and control. I have this idea, the phrase I keep coming back to is active intelligence. You need an active intelligence, which includes faculties of reason, but also perception, empathy, imagination,. All these faculties together that is active in the sense that you're processing experiences, thoughts, ideas over time so that they get revised or changed.

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