Philosophy for the People w/Ben Burgis

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Arguing with Slavoj Zizek About Free Will and Physics

Arguing with Slavoj Zizek About Free Will and Physics

Last week I had a friendly debate with Slavoj Zizek on compatibilism, incompatibilism, and whether microphysics matters for free will and moral responsibility. Let's see if we can untangle it all now.

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Note: This afternoon at 4 PM East Coast/1 West Coast I’ll be chatting about this essay with Stefan Bertram-Lee on This is Revolution podcast. You can watch it there or cross-streamed to GTAA.

Last year at “Hay”—the annual How the Light Gets In festival in the Welsh village of Hye-on-Wye—I was sitting in the green room with my laptop open, trying to figur…

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