The concept of free will is profoundly important to our self-understanding, our interpersonal relationships, and our moral and legal practices. If it turns out that no one is ever free and morally responsible, what would that mean for society, morality, meaning, and the law? Just Deserts introduces the concepts central to the debate about free will and moral responsibility by way of an entertaining, rigorous, and sometimes heated philosophical dialogue between two leading thinkers.
235. Thomas Sowell: The Life and Work of the Legendary Social Theorist (Jason Riley)
234. Matt Ridley on the Search for the Origin of COVID-19
233. Goodbye Pat Linse, Skeptic Co-founder and My Best Friend…
232. Amishi Jha on Learning How to Pay Attention to Your Attention
231. Jason Hill on What White Americans Owe Black People
230. Bart Ehrman — Did the Christmas Story Really Happen? The Birth of Jesus in History & Legend
229. Fritjof Capra on Patterns of Connection: Is there a Tao of physics? Is life a web? Is humanity at a turning point?
228. Steven Koonin on what climate science tells us, what it doesn’t, and why it matters, based on his book Unsettled
227. Richard Nisbett on Thinking & Reason
226. Suzanne Nossel on defending free speech for all, based on her book Dare to Speak
225. Nancy Segal — Deliberately Divided: Inside the Controversial Study of Twins and Triplets Adopted Apart
224. Bobby Duffy on The Generation Myth: Why When You’re Born Matters Less Than You Think
223. Paul Bloom on the pleasures of suffering and the meaning of life
222. Suzanne O’Sullivan on psychosomatic disorders and other mystery illnesses
221. Antonio Damasio — Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious
220. Charles Foster on Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness
219. In-Person Conversation (in Shermer’s Home) with Steven Pinker on Rationality: What it is, Why it Seems Scarce, Why it Matters in Shermer’s Home
218. Craig Whitlock — The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
217. Mary Grabar on the 1619 Project, Howard Zinn, Historical Revisionism, and Pseudohistory
216. Kathryn Paige Harden — The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
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