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From the Skeptics Society Distinguished Lecture Series
Can there be freedom and free will in a deterministic world? If you are free, are you responsible for being free or just lucky? In this lecture based on his latest book, Dan Dennett sets out to answer these questions, showing how we alone among animals, have evolved minds that give us free will and morality. In a series of strikingly original arguments drawing on evolutionar biology, cognitive neuroscience, economics and philosophy, he demonstrates that if we accept Darwin's reasoning, we can build from the simplest life forms all the way up to the best and deepest human thoughts on questions of morality and meaning, ethics and freedom.
Dr. Daniel C. Dennett is Univeristy Professor and Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. His books include Brainstorms, Elbow Room, Consciousness Explained, and Darwin's Dangerous Idea, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
Can there be freedom and free will in a deterministic world? If you are free, are you responsible for being free or just lucky? In this lecture based on his latest book, Dan Dennett sets out to answer these questions, showing how we alone among animals, have evolved minds that give us free will and morality. In a series of strikingly original arguments drawing on evolutionar biology, cognitive neuroscience, economics and philosophy, he demonstrates that if we accept Darwin's reasoning, we can build from the simplest life forms all the way up to the best and deepest human thoughts on questions of morality and meaning, ethics and freedom.
Dr. Daniel C. Dennett is Univeristy Professor and Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. His books include Brainstorms, Elbow Room, Consciousness Explained, and Darwin's Dangerous Idea, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
Source:
Daniel Dennett - Free Will Determinism and Evolution - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrCZYDm5D8M&feature=related
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