Fri vilja

Har vi fri vilja eller är allt förutbestämt?

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I tusentals år har människor diskuterat den fria viljans existens. Var står vi idag? Hur påverkar vår syn på fri vilja våra relationer, våra rättssystem och vår moral? Vad händer om kontrollen vi tror vi har över våra liv visar sig vara en illusion?

Producent och programledare: Viktor Hariz
Programledare: Fanny Hedenmo

Medverkande

• Jim Al-Khalili - professor emeritus i fysik vid universitetet i Surrey

• Gregg Caruso - professor i etik vid Fairfield University

• Robert Sapolsky - professor i biologi, neurologi och neurokirurgi vid Stanford University

Böcker

• ”Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will” av Robert Sapolsky (2023)

• ”Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst” av Robert Sapolsky (2017)

Artiklar

• As If You Had a Choice - Sam Scott (Stanford Magazine, 2023)

• Robert Sapolsky Doesn’t Believe in Free Will. (But Feel Free to Disagree.) - Hope Reese (New York Times, 2023)

• Do You Have Free Will? - Kieran Setiya (The Atlantic, 2023)

• Consciousness: Who’s at the Wheel? - Riccardo Manzotti and Tim Parks (NYROB, 2017)

• An Identity of My Own - David Pears (LRB, 1989)

• The Case Against B.F. Skinner - Noam Chomsky (NYROB, 1971)

• Is the Universe a Computer? - Steven Weinberg (NYROB, 2002)

• Why would Mother Nature bother? - Jerry Fodor (LRB, 2003)

• Your Fancy-Pants Brain - James Gleick (NYROB, 2024)

• The Fate of Free Will - James Gleick (NYROB, 2024)

• The Unceremonious Death of Free Will - Joachim I. Krueger; David J. Grüning (The American Journal of Psychology, 2024)

• How can determinists believe in free will? - Nikhil Krishnan (The New Yorker, 2023)

• Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will Reviewed by John Martin Fischer (Notre Dame, 2023)

• Stanford scientist, after decades of study, concludes: We don’t have free will - Corinne Purtill (LA Times, 2023)

• Does Quantum Mechanics Rule Out Free Will? - John Horgan (Scientific American, 2022)

• From chaos to free will - George Ellis (Aeon, 2020)

• Why free will is beyond physics - Philip Ball (Physics World, 2021)

• Why the Classical Argument Against Free Will Is a Failure - Mark Balaguer (MIT Press, 2022)

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