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Daniel Dennett: Is Science Showing That We Don't Have Free Will?

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A public lecture by Daniel C. Dennett, Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University, entitled "Is Science Showing That We Don't Have Free Will?"

In his lecture, Professor Daniel Dennett discusses some of the current work in psychology bearing on this question.

He also drew on Hume, Darwin and Turing, three Enlightenment heroes.

Part of the University of Edinburgh's Enlightenment Lecture Series.

Year of Darwin - Dr. Randolph Nesse

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The Great Opportunity: New Evolutionary Applications in Medicine

Recorded January 16, 2009 in the Wolstein Research Building, Auditorium (Rm. 1413) on the campus of Case Western Reserve University.

Hosted by the Department of Pathology.

Professor Nesse (University of Michigan) is a leading authority on the application of evolutionary principles to clinical medicine.

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Op vrijdag 3 september 2010 10:44 schreef Molurus het volgende:
Tss, waarom vertelt nou niemand me ooit dat iemand zoals Michael Sandel een lezing komt geven in Nederland? Ik hoor dat soort dingen altijd net te laat. In elk geval bedankt voor de tip, Friek_!

Oh, en deze mag ook absoluut niet ontbreken in dit topic:

'A Universe From Nothing' by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009

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Our conceptions of human nature affect every aspect of our lives, from the way we raise our children to the political movements we embrace. Yet just as science is bringing us into a golden age of understanding human nature, many people are hostile to the very idea. They fear that discoveries about innate patterns of thinking and feeling may be used to justify inequality, to subvert social change, to dissolve personal responsibility, and to strip life of meaning and purpose.

In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker, bestselling author of The Language Instinct and How the Mind Works, explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. He shows how many intellectuals have denied the existence of human nature by embracing three linked dogmas: The Blank Slate (the mind has no innate traits), The Noble Savage (people are born good and corrupted by society), and The Ghost in the Machine (each of us has a soul that makes choices free from biology).

Each dogma carries a moral burden, so their defenders have engaged in the desperate tactics to discredit the scientists who are now challenging them. Pinker tries to inject calm and rationality into these debates by showing that equality, progress, responsibility, and purpose have nothing to fear from discoveries about rich human nature. He disarms even the most menacing threats with clear thinking, common sense, and pertinent facts from science and history. Despite its popularity among intellectuals during much of the twentieth century, he argues, the doctrine of the Blank Slate may have done more harm than good. It denies our common humanity and our individual preferences, replaces hardheaded analyses of social problems with feel-good slogans, and distorts our understanding of government, violence, parenting, and the arts.

Authors@Google: John Searle

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John Searle visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book " Freedom and Neurobiology: Reflections on Free Will, Language, and Political Power." This event took place on October 30, 2007 as part of the Authors@Google series.

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Op woensdag 15 september 2010 23:43 schreef Stirner het volgende:
Authors@Google: John Searle.

Authors@Google: Tim Keller