Original upload date: Sun, 18 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 22:46:01 GMT
John Martin Fischer is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. His philosophical work focuses on free will, moral responsibility, as well as death, near-death
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experiences, immortality, and more.
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00:00 - Introduction
01:49 - Moral responsibility
03:53 - Free will vs. moral responsibility
07:04 - Disputes as not substantive
09:29 - Attacks on compatibilism
19:16 - Resolving disputes
24:55 - Another approach to free will
32:51 - Comparison to other problems
38:28 - Plausibility of Frankfurt cases
41:03 - Determinism
46:14 - Reductive analysis
48:22 - Determinism and modern physics
52:31 - Frankfurt cases
1:00:16 - Flickers of freedom
1:02:15 - Fixity of the past
1:09:16 - Criticisms of fixity
1:15:34 - Rational deliberation
1:18:19 - Historical development of free will
1:23:55 - Divine foreknowledge and free will
1:26:38 - Libertarian response
1:33:35 - God as not essentially omniscient
1:38:48 - Omniscience
1:50:56 - Limits to God's knowledge
1:55:08 - First-order evidence as redundant
1:57:29 - How does it work?
2:05:38 - Perspective as an atheist
2:08:01 - Near-death experiences
2:13:41 - Pessimism about supernatural conclusions
2:16:24 - Worthwhile research?
2:19:05 - Immortality
2:23:23 - Irrational desires
2:26:01 - Pascal's wager
2:31:10 - Badness of death
2:35:50 - Desires and the badness of death
2:41:11 - Suicide
2:43:57 - Meaning of life
2:54:42 - Value of philosophy
2:59:42 - Conclusion
