Ideas Roadshow Podcast

Alfred Mele, “Free Will: An Investigation” (Open Agenda, 2021)

Dec 20, 2021

01:45:57

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What Is Free Will?

03:24

Is There a Metaphysical Argument for Free Will?

02:05

Is There a Difference Between Free Will and Consciousness?

06:02

Introduction

2min

Do You Love God More Than Your Parents?

3min

Aristotle and the Lies in the Soul

2min

How to Break New Year's Resolutions

3min

Self Deception - I'm Going to Deceive You

2min

How Does Self Deception Work?

2min

Is This a Philosophical Issue?

3min

Free Will, Is It Compatible With Determinism?

5min

You Can, You Can't Willw You Want

4min

10.

Free Will Is Compatibility With Determinism

2min

11.

Is There Anything Other Than Material Stuff?

3min

12.

Do You Have Free Will?

5min

13.

Is Free Will Compatible With Hard Court Determinism?

3min

14.

Is There a Metaphysical Argument for Free Will?

2min

15.

Is Determinism Compatible With Free Will?

3min

16.

Are You More Flexible Than I Am?

4min

17.

Libbit Experiment

2min

18.

I Want to Flex My Wrist, Right?

2min

19.

How to Measure the Time Between the Ghost Signal and the Muscle Burst

2min

20.

Is the Point of No Return Hit?

2min

21.

Is There a Difference Between Free Will and Consciousness?

6min

22.

Is There a Soul in the Brain?

2min

23.

Are We Going Away From Science?

5min

24.

Are We All Conscious About Making Decisions?

3min

25.

The Bystander Effect

6min

26.

What Is Free Will?

3min

27.

Is Subliminal Advertising Really Effective?

4min

28.

The Bystander Effect, Is It All One Way?

2min

29.

The Bystander Effect in Social Psychology?

2min

30.

Is There a Second Grade of Free Will?

3min

31.

Indeterminism in the Brain

2min

32.

Evolution Is Not Deterministic, Is It?

2min

33.

Is There a Dualism in Brains?

2min

34.

Is Free Will a Deterministic Universe?

4min

Free Will: An Investigation is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Alfred Mele, the William H. and Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University. This wide-ranging conversation examines free will and the different notions of free will that exist, the connections of free will with developments in neuroscience, social psychology and public opinion polls and Alfred Mele’s key concern about how current and future insights might be directly applied to improve our world.

Howard Burton is the founder of the Ideas Roadshow, Ideas on Film and host of the Ideas Roadshow Podcast. He can be reached at howard@ideasroadshow.com.

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