Episode 16: Compatibilism, Part 2 (Dispositional Compatibilism) with Kadri Vihvelin

Mar 22, 2021

40:13

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Dispositional Compatiblism - I'm Not a Compatiblistah

Introduction

2min

Time Travel

6min

Is Free Will Important?

2min

How Did You Come to Be Interested in Free Will?

2min

Is There a Dispositional Compatiblism?

2min

Are Dispositions Compatible With Free Will?

4min

Free Will Is a Bundle of Different Abilities

4min

Is There a Free Will Problem?

4min

Dispositional Compatiblism - I'm Not a Compatiblistah

5min

10.

Do Non Human Creatures, Ie, Cats and Dogs Have Free Will?

2min

11.

The Third Objection to Dispositional Compatiblism

6min

12.

The Time Traveller and Free Will

2min

In this episode, we interview Kadri Vihvelin about a recent development of the classical compatibilist position—a development that has come to be known as "dispositional compatibilism." Along the way we discuss time travel, abilities, dispositions, and much more.

Kadri's website: http://vihvelin.com/

Kadri's book, Causes, Laws, and Free Will: Why Determinism Doesn't Matter: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/causes-laws-and-free-will-9780199795185?cc=ca&lang=en&

Kadri's recent time travel paper, "Killing Time Again": https://academic.oup.com/monist/article-abstract/103/3/312/5859025

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