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#1 – Brett Hall: Knowledge, Evolutionary Psychology and Free Will

Arjun Khemani Podcast

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We're Just an Increment Beyond Chimpanzees, but There's Nothing Special About Us

The idea of free will is a convenient way of speaking. It's part of the name of the problem that makes us different to all these other species. And we don't have a full account of what it is that gives us this capacity to generate explanatory knowledge. We cause pollution, the damaging environment, wiping out other species,. The list is long of all the ways in which we're evil. So there is something special about people.

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