Sean Carroll at Preposterous Universe:
Did I have any freedom in choosing this particular podcast guest? At the level of particles, fields, and the fundamental laws of physics; no. At the level of human agents navigating the world, yes. Today’s guest, Christian List, is a philosopher and political scientist who has arguably done the most to articulate the “compatibilist” perspective on free will, according to which the freedom of rational agents is entirely compatible with underlying mechanistic laws. The reconciliation depends on thinking carefully about emergence and the relationship between levels of reality.
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