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Episode 2: The "Dangerous Truth" about Free Will (Free Will and Morality, Pt. 2)

Published: Sept. 1, 2012, 3 a.m.

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Tamler and David discuss whether giving up our belief in free will makes us more likely to abandon our moral standards.\\xa0

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\\u201cYou Can\\u2019t Handle the Truth!\\u201d\\xa0

Jesse Bering \\u201cScientists say free will probably doesn\\u2019t exist, but urge: \\u201cDon\\u2019t stop believing!\\u201d \\xa0Excellent accessible description of the Vohs and Schooler study that we discuss.

Tamler\\u2019s blog post in Psychology Today criticizing the pessimistic views of Smilansky and Vohs and Schooler: "No Soul? \\xa0I can live with that. \\xa0No free will? \\xa0Aaahhhh!". \\xa0

\\u201cEat the poo-poo.\\u201d \\xa0\\u201cLike ice cream\\u2026\\u201d \\xa0

Josh Knobe on free will and experimental philosophy.\\xa0\\xa0

Tamler\'s dialogue on some of the problems with current experimental work on free will: "Free Will and Experimental Philosophy: An Intervention."

\\u201cI want him dead!\\xa0 I want his family dead!\\u201d\\xa0\\xa0

Uhlmann, Zhu, Pizarro & Bloom \\xa0\\u201cBlood is Thicker: Moral Spillover Effects Based on Kinship\\u201d

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