Kevin Mitchell is Associate Professor of Genetics and Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin. He is also the author of the wonderful recent book 'Free Agents: How Evolution Gave us Free will', a robust defence of the reality of free will. Between the three of us, we aim to definitely establish whether or not humans are free. For more on Kevin Mitchell: https://press.princeton.edu/books/har... https://www.kjmitchell.com/ Timings 0:00 – Amusing Banter 4:41 – Introducing Kevin Mitchell 6:07 – Kevin’s view 16:12 – The Philosophy of Free Will 29:03 – Keith Probes Kevin 51:25 – Philip and Keith disagree on how to interpret Kevin’s position 1:01:00 – Does quantum mechanics help? 1:24:12 – Keith can’t help himself 1:30:24 – Philip mutes Keith 1:30:57 – Audience Q&A 1:43:33 – Final banter and Mind Chat catchphrase