Podcast appearances and mentions of eddy nahmias

In this episode, we talk with Eddy Nahmias about the experimental philosophy of free will and his own compatibilist view.Eddy's Website: https://eddynahmias.com/Eddy's paper (with Nadelhoffer and Morris): Is Incompatibilism Intuitive?Eddy's paper with Oisin Deery: Why the Manipulation Argument Fails: Determinism Does Not Entail Perfect PredictionTwitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshowInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefreewillshow/?hl=enFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/The-Free-Will-Show-105535031200408/

I spoke with the philosopher Eddy Nahmias about his work in Free Will and Moral Responsibility. What type of freedom do we have, or want to have? And does the increasing understanding of the brain threaten our sense of acting freely? Find out all this and more in my talk with Eddy. We use two paper of his as background for the conversation: "Your Brain as the Source of Free Will Worth Wanting" and "Why ‘Willusionism' Leads to ‘Bad Results.'" Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper: https://eddynahmias.com/ https://philpapers.org/rec/NAHYBA https://www.eddynahmias.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Neuroethics-Response-to-Baumeister.pdf Twitter: @JordanCMyers You can also get in contact by emailing me at platoscavepodcast@gmail.com Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD1RiH1j-M6C59z1upPXkWw?disable_polymer=true Plato's Cave Website: https://platoscave.fireside.fm/ Special Guest: Eddy Nahmias.

CONSCIOUSNESS - What is free will? Do we have free will? The ‘Big Questions in Free Will' project tackles these issues in a multi-year study. In Part I, scientists and philosophers research, test, and advance thinking on free will. Featuring Bertram Malle, Eddy Nahmias, Roy Baumeister, Patrick Haggard, Adina Roskies, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, and Alfred Mele.

Eddy Nahmias Professor and chair of the Philosophy Department at Georgia State University and associate faculty member of the Neuroscience Institute at Georgia State University. His research is devoted to the study of human agency (what it is, how it is possible, and how it accords with scientific accounts of human nature) focusing on debates about free will and moral responsibility. Eddy is co-editor of Moral Psychology: Historical and Contemporary Readings (Wiley-Blackwell) and his work has been published in Philosophical Studies, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, and Cognition, among others.

In this episode we interview Eddy Nahmias, professor of philosophy at Georgia State University, on his recent work in experimental philosophy of mind and action.

‘Willusionists’ argue that science is discovering that free will is an illusion. Their arguments take a variety of forms, but they often suggest that if the brain is responsible for our actions, then we are not.  And they predict that ordinary people share this view.  I will discuss some evidence that most people do not think that free will or responsibility conflict with the possibility that our decisions could be perfectly predicted based on earlier brain activity.  I will consider why this possibility might appear problematic but why it shouldn’t.  Once we define free will properly, we see that neuroscience and psychology can help to explain how it works, rather than explain it away.  Human free will is allowed by a remarkable assembly of neuropsychological capacities, including imagination, control of attention, valuing, and ‘self-habituation’. September 17, 2014

Our streak of very special guests continues!  Philosopher Eddy Nahmias joins the podcast to us why people mistakenly think they're not morally responsible, and how his new study casts doubt on Sam Harris's "pamphlet" on free will.  Eddy also describes his new project (with Toni Adleberg and Morgan Thompson) on why women leave philosophy.  Plus Dave and I discuss some reasons for having children, and eat a little Partially Examined Life crow. Links "Name five women in philosophy.  Bet you can't." Tania Lombrozo, [npr.og] "Do Women Have Different Philosophical Intuitions than Men?" Eddy Nahmias (philosophyofbrains.com) "Is Neuroscience the Death of Free Will?' Eddy Nahmias.  [nytimes.com] Eddy on Bypassing [agencyandresponsbility.typepad.com]Edd trashing Tamler's Book [agencyandresponsbility.typepad.com]     Special Guest: Eddy Nahmias.

Dave and Tamler start out talking about the new wave of skepticism about free will and moral responsibility in the popular press from people like Sam Harris and Jerry Coyne.  Neuroscience figures heavily in their arguments, but Dave and Tamler agree that neuroscientific data adds little of substance to the case other than telling us what we already know: human beings are natural biological entities.  Dave also accuses Tamler of being a hipster philosopher for abandoning a view once it got popular. Next, we talk about what kind freedom we need to have in order to deserve blame and punishment. Do we need to create ourselves out of the swamps of nothingness? Dave comes out as a Star Trek nerd and asks whether we're all, in the end, like Data the android.  They also wonder whether a belief in free will is all that's keeping us from having sex with our dogs.  Finally,  Dave grills Tamler about his new book on the differences in attitudes about free will and moral responsibility across cultures. After seeing how long they've been carrying on, they then agree to talk about all the stuff they left out in the next episode.    LinksCoyne, J.  “Why You Don’t Really Have Free Will.”Sam Harris. “Free Will.”Eddy Nahmias.  "Is Neuroscience the Death of Free Will?"Galen Strawson "Luck Swallows Everything."