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Free will: just an illusion?
Professor Joe Friggieri head of philosophy, University of Malta; poet; playwright; theatre director; three-times winner, National Literary Prize Dr Daniel Glaser head, special projects, public engagement, Wellcome Trust; honorary senior research fellow, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London Neal Lawson chair, Compass; author, All Consuming; former adviser to Gordon Brown; co-editor, Progressive Century Dr Ellie Lee reader in social policy, University of Kent, Canterbury; director, Centre for Parenting Culture Studies Chair: Angus Kennedy head of external relations, Institute of Ideas; chair, IoI Economy Forum; convenor, The Academy Free will is at the root of our notions of moral responsibility, choice and judgment. It is at the heart of our conception of the human individual as an autonomous end in himself. Nevertheless, free will is notoriously hard to pin down. Philosophers have denied its existence on the basis that we are determined by the laws of nature, society or history, insisting there is no evidence of free will in the iron chain of cause and effect. Theologians have argued everything happens according to the will of God, not man. And yet, when we decide we want something and act on that, it certainly seems as if we are choosing freely. Are we just kidding ourselves? Some of the most profound contemporary challenges to the idea of free will come from neuroscientists, evolutionary psychologists and biologists. They argue we are ...From:battleofideasViews:1 0ratingsTime:01:15:27More inNews Politics

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