Rationally Speaking Podcast
Rationally Speaking Podcast
New York City Skeptics
Rationally Speaking #163 - Gregg Caruso on "Free Will and Moral Responsibility"
59 minutes Posted Jul 10, 2016 at 5:00 pm.
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If people don't have free will, then can we be held morally responsible for our actions? And what would happen to society if we were to collectively shed our belief in free will? In this episode Julia talks with philosopher Gregg Caruso, who advocates a position of "optimistic skepticism" on the topic. Skepticism because people don't have free will as a sense of moral responsibility, but optimistic because society would be better off if we accept that we do.