Episode 60: Compatibilism and Reduction with Robert Wallace

May 29, 2023

55:02

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Episode notes

Introduction

4min

Reductive Compatibility in Philosophy

4min

The Classical Compatibility of Free Will

2min

The Problem With Reductive Compatibility

4min

The Different Dispositions of Agents

4min

The Problem With Reductive Compatibility

4min

The Language of Stimulus and Response

2min

The Problem With Reductive Explanation

4min

The Relationship Between Reasons and Action

4min

10.

The Problem With Reductive Components of Free Will

3min

11.

The Relationship Between Compatibilityists and General Problems for Reductionism in Theorizing About Free Will

2min

12.

The Problem With Reducing Agency

5min

13.

The Threat of Reductionism in the Free World of Events

3min

14.

The Cost of Defining Free Will

3min

15.

The Problem With Compatibility

2min

16.

The Nature of Reductive Explanation

4min

In this episode, we talk with Robert Wallace about a dilemma for compatibilist views that reductively explain free will in terms of dispositions.

Robert's website: https://www.roberthwallace.com/

Robert's paper, "A Dilemma for Reductive Compatibilism": https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10670-021-00475-w

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