New College of the Humanities
New College of the Humanities visiting professor Daniel Dennett talks on the free will debate with NCH philosophy undergraduate student Millie Chip. Daniel is a regular visiting professor at NCH London teaching Philosophy. For more information about what we have to offer, click here: https://www.nchlondon.ac.uk/
Daniel is University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He has held visiting positions at Harvard University, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Oxford, the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, and the London School of Economics.
Other visiting professors at NCH include Lawrence Krauss, Richard Dawkins, Niall Ferguson and Sir Partha Dasgupta. For more videos please see our channel – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcqlTkMrrRw4sp_JUuRK7Vw
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The work that philosophers should do, is develop the philosophy of the autonomous science biology. Biology has different basic principles than the physicalist sciences physics, chemistry, mechanics. I am making videos on that topic lately on important books by biologists like "What Makes Biology Unique" by Ernst Mayr
Free will is not a thing! There is no such "thing" that we have or lack. We should be talking about the human faculty of thinking, reasoning and making choices.
What a snob. He can't accept that his ideas amount to nothing. Complexity does not grant freedom from physics. We are all products of various influences.
What variations of free will do we have that Daniel says is "worth having?"
What a noob ! exactly what he "claims" those whom accept free will have a predisposition to ignore evidence collected against it could 100% b said of those whom accept no free will and will have a predisposition to ignore any evidence that confirms it.. Get back in yr box I've finished playing with my toys now.. lol mechanistic deterministic's are a hoot , just like religious zealots
Determinism gives rise to freedoms worth wanting because we are able to weigh between options and respond appropriately I think that's what Dennett is saying which is true biologically speaking we do have the power to choose so in that sense determinism is (kind) of compatible with free will because we always make choices and think ahead about our future behaviour
A moralistic incompetent person would damage his own posibilities of being more…by going to jail if a crime is committed but then again this is relative itself.