In this episode, we talk with Meghan Griffith about developing a narrative capacity and how it relates to becoming morally responsible. Megan's website: https://www.davidson.edu/people/meghan-griffith Megan's paper, "Narrative Capacity and Moral Responsibility": https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/social-philosophy-and-policy/article/abs/narrative-capacity-and-moral-responsibility/B1685573B9DFCAEF6D0B22EA54222D46 Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshow Instagram:...

Cohosts Taylor Cyr and Matt Flummer describe their new book How Free Are We? Conversations from the Free Will Show. Preorder the book from Oxford University Press: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/how-free-are-we-9780197657508?facet_narrowbybinding_facet=Ebook&facet_narrowbypubdate_facet=Last%203%20months&lang=en&cc=us Also available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/How-Free-Are-We-Flummer/dp/0197657508 Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshow Instagram:...

In this episode we talk with Justin Coates about the nature of ambivalence and arguments for and against it. Justin's website: https://djustincoates.com/index.html Justin's book, In Praise of Ambivalence: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/in-praise-of-ambivalence-9780197652398?q=justin%20coates&lang=en&cc=us# Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefreewillshow/?hl=en Facebook:...

In this episode, we talk with Tommie Shelby about whether and when states lack the standing to punish. We also discuss Tommie's book on prison abolitionism, which makes the case for prison reform without accepting that incarceration is illegitimate. Tommie's website: https://www.tommieshelby.com/ Tommie's book, The Idea of Prison Abolition: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691229751/the-idea-of-prison-abolition Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshow Instagram:...

In this episode, we talk with Stephanie Collins and Niels de Haan about whether structuralism or historicism best accounts for group responsibility. Stephanie's website: https://stephaniecollins.xyz/ Niels's website: https://sites.google.com/view/niels-de-haan/homepage Their paper, "Group Responsibility and Historicism": https://academic.oup.com/pq/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pq/pqad104/7329479 Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshow Instagram:...

In this episode, we talk with Joseph Metz about moral luck and responsibility for omissions. Joe's website: https://www.joseph-metz.com/home Joe's paper, “Omissions, Moral Luck, and Minding the (Epistemic) Gap”: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/canadian-journal-of-philosophy/article/omissions-moral-luck-and-minding-the-epistemic-gap/F95FD50121A509FB66C3691D49D91B03 Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefreewillshow/?hl=en Facebook:...

In this episode, we talk with Mihailis Diamantis about the nature of corporations and some similarities between corporate and individual criminal responsibility. Mihailis's website: https://law.uiowa.edu/people/mihailis-diamantis Mihailis's paper, "Corporate Criminal Minds": https://ndlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/NDL509.pdf Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefreewillshow/?hl=en Facebook:...

In this episode, we talk with Raff Donelson about several different topics, including his response to free will skepticism, whether its okay to make people responsible to make reparations for historical injustices, and his recent work on medieval criminal trials involving non-human animals. Raff's website: https://www.raffdonelson.com/ Raff's paper, "Reparation, Responsibility, and Formalism: A Reply to Carnes": https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3717192 Twitter:...

In this episode, we talk with Justin Capes about the principle of alternative possibilities and his version of the flicker of freedom response to Frankfurt cases. Justin's website: https://www.justincapes.com/ Justin's book, Moral Responsibility and the Flicker of Freedom: https://academic.oup.com/book/46725 Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefreewillshow/?hl=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The-Free-Will-Show-105535031200408/

In this episode, we talk with Simone Gubler about forgiveness, its value, and some potential problems with institutional attempts to make forgiveness happen. Simone's website: https://simonegubler.com/ Simone's paper, "Recent Work in Forgiveness": https://academic.oup.com/analysis/article-abstract/82/4/738/6908773?redirectedFrom=fulltext Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefreewillshow/?hl=en Facebook:...

In this episode, we talk with Stephen Morse about the nature of addiction and about the moral and criminal responsibility of people who suffer from addiction. Stephen's website: https://www.law.upenn.edu/faculty/smorse/ Stephen's book (edited with Adina Roskies), A Primer on Criminal Law and Neuroscience: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-primer-on-criminal-law-and-neuroscience-9780199859177?q=primer%20on%20law%20and%20neuroscience%20morse%20roskies&lang=en&cc=us Twitter:...

In this episode, we talk with David Shoemaker about his theory of different kinds of moral responsibility and its implications for psychopathy and the law. David's website: https://sites.google.com/site/dshoemakr/home David's book, Responsibility from the Margins: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/responsibility-from-the-margins-9780198715672?lang=en&cc=us Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefreewillshow/?hl=en Facebook:...

In this episode, we talk with Gideon Yaffe about whether and to what extent children should be held less culpable for breaking the law. Gideon's website: https://law.yale.edu/gideon-yaffe Gideon's book, The Age of Culpability: Children and the Age of Criminal Responsibility: https://academic.oup.com/book/8349?login=false Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefreewillshow/?hl=en Facebook:...

In this episode, we talk with Saul Smilansky about overpunishment, focusing on the question of whether overpunishing a guilty person is morally worse than punishing an innocent person. We also briefly discuss Saul's work on free will and illusion. Saul's website: https://www.saulsmilansky.com/ Saul's book, Free Will and Illusion: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/free-will-and-illusion-9780199252596?q=saul%20smilanski%20free%20will&lang=en&cc=us Saul's paper, "Overpunishment...

In this episode, we talk with Katrina Sifferd about the rehabilitation of criminal offenders and the effects that environments can have on criminal behavior and rehabilitation. Katrina's website: https://pleasandexcuses.net/ Katrina's paper, "Structural Injustice and Fair Opportunity": https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11572-023-09697-1 Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefreewillshow/?hl=en Facebook:...

In this episode, we talk with Victor Tadros about moral authority (or standing) and punishment. In particular, we ask about what it would mean for the state to be complicit in the behavior of criminal offenders and how that complicity might affect its standing to punish.  Victor's website: https://vtadros367761169.wordpress.com/ Victor's book, Criminal Responsibility: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/criminal-responsibility-9780199225828 Twitter:...

In this episode, we talk with Craig Agule about some of the philosophical issues related to mens rea requirements in the law and also about the connection between mens rea and free will. Craig's website: https://craigagule.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefreewillshow/?hl=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The-Free-Will-Show-105535031200408/

In this episode, we talk with Erin Kelly about the main theories of justification for punishment, as well as some challenges for those theories. We also ask her about her work on moving from retributive to restorative justice. Erin's website: https://erinikelly.com Erin's book, The Limits of Blame: Rethinking Punishment and Responsibility: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674980778 Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshow Instagram:...

This episode starts a new season on free will and the law. In a wide-ranging discussion, Kyle Fritz gives some background for various key issues at the intersection of free will and the law. Kyle's website: https://kylegfritz.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefreewillshow/?hl=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The-Free-Will-Show-105535031200408/

In this episode, we talk with Robert Wallace about a dilemma for compatibilist views that reductively explain free will in terms of dispositions. Robert's website: https://www.roberthwallace.com/ Robert's paper, "A Dilemma for Reductive Compatibilism": https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10670-021-00475-w Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefreewillshow/?hl=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The-Free-Will-Show-105535031200408/

In this episode we talk with Nadine Elzein about the public health model for responding to criminal behavior. We ask about reasons for preferring this model (including free will skepticism) as well as some common objections to treating crime like a public health issue. Nadine's website: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/people/summaries/elzein/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefreewillshow/?hl=en Facebook:...

In this episode we talk with John Maier about what he calls 'options' and how they’re related in other issues in the philosophy of agency. John's website: https://www.jmaier.net John's book, Options and Agency: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-10243-1 Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefreewillshow/?hl=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The-Free-Will-Show-105535031200408/

In this episode, we talk with Susan Wolf about her view of free will, which she calls "The Reason View," and how her view has evolved over the years.   Susan's website: https://philosophy.unc.edu/people/susan-wolf/ Susan's book, Freedom within Reason: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/freedom-within-reason-9780195085655?cc=us&lang=en& Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefreewillshow/?hl=en Facebook:...

In this episode, we talk with Justin Caouette about a variety of topics that he’s interested in in the free will debate as well as what is at stake in the debate itself. Justin's website: http://www.profjustincaouette.com/ Justin's co-edited volume, Free Will and Moral Responsibility: https://www.cambridgescholars.com/free-will-and-moral-responsibility-15 Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefreewillshow/?hl=en Facebook:...