Integrating Science and Free Will

24/10/2025 1h 48min
Integrating Science and Free Will

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Podcast audio:







In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Tristan de Liège, Mike Mazza, Gregory Salmieri and Ben Bayer discuss Kevin Mitchell’s book, Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will.



Topics include:




The locus of free will;



Moral responsibility;



The relevance of quantum mechanics;



Determinism;



Aristotle;



Randomness and indeterminacy;



“Agent causation” vs entity causation;



Blank slate.




Resources:




Harry Binswanger’s essay “Volition as Cognitive Self-Regulation.”




This episode was recorded on October 9, 2025, and posted on October 24, 2025.

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