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Live broadcast. Sapolsky against free will. Philosophers vs Sapolsky

9 January, 2022

The famous Stanford biologist Robert Sapolsky declares that we are nothing more than the result of "biological luck", we are just biological organisms and do not determine our fate, we do not have not only free will, but also the right to blame and punish even criminals who have committed the most cruel atrocities. Philosophers Dmitry Volkov and Vadim Vasilyev argue with these statements live.


Moderator:
Anton Kuznetsov is a Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, a researcher at the MCCS at the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University.

Guests:
Dmitry Volkov - Professor, Doctor of Philosophy, Co-director of the MCCS at the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University.
Vadim Vasilyev - Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Doctor of Philology, Head of the Department of History of Foreign Philosophy of the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University, Co-director of the MCCS.

Timecodes: 
00:00 - Introduction
01:48 - Philosophers themselves do not know what they are talking about when they talk about free will
06:58 - There is no neuron of free will, so there is no free will
09:31 - The neuron of free will is not needed to assume the reality of freedom
10:54 - About the oddities in understanding Sapolsky's free will
13:55 - Causeless events and free will
15:23 - Free will is a harmful myth
20:04 - Happiness and free will
20:27 - Social experiment about free will
23:29 - If I didn't become president of America, is it my fault?
24:45 - Lunch and court sentences. On the influence of hidden factors on behavior
28:17 - From the fact that we sometimes act unfree, it does not follow that we always act unfree
33:30 - Why Sapolsky is actually a supporter of free will
35:04 - How to maintain a belief in the presence of free will?
37:35 - Books about free will

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