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Uehiro Oxford Institute

The Neuroscience of Moral Agency (Or: How I Learned to Love Determinism and Still Respect Myself in the Morning)

In this public lecture, Dr William Casebeer discusses neuroscience, human agency and free will.
Practical Ethics Bites

Free will, and its connection to moral responsibility

Professor Neil Levy explores the link between free will and responsibility. What makes us blameworthy for our actions?
Uehiro Oxford Institute

Uehiro Seminar: Psychopaths and responsibility

Neil Levy explores some of the previous debates about whether psychopaths are fully responsible for their wrongdoing, especially work on the moral/conventional distinction.
General Philosophy

7.4 Making Sense of Free Will and Moral Responsibility

Part 7.4. A brief explanation of Hume's argument for sentimentalism and Robert Kane's views on free will and determinism.
General Philosophy

7.3 Hume on Liberty and Necessity

Part 7.3. Looks at Hume's views on liberty and its relationship to causal necessity; that we have free will but it is causally determined.
General Philosophy

7.2 Different Concepts of Freedom

Part 7.2. Looks at Hobbes' and Hume's views of free will and the three concepts of freedom, and considers the idea of moral responsibility as dependent on free will.
General Philosophy

7.1 Free Will, Determinism and Choice

Part 7.1. Explores the problem of free will and the ideas of moral responsibility, determinism and choice; the need for a concept of freedom to allow free choice, the problems associated with this and asking whether we really have freedom of choice.
Nietzsche on Mind and Nature

Nietzsche's Value Monism - Saying Yes to Everything

Lecture on Nietzsche's attack on Value Dualism, as well as the view he offers instead and whether Nietzsche can sustain his Value Monism-the view that everything is good-given the pressures that pull him back into saying no as well as yes.
Nietzsche on Mind and Nature

Nietzsche's Metaphysics

Nietzsche rejects a persisting self; real distinctions of objects and properties, categorical and dispositional properties, causes and effects; free will. He holds that determinism is true, reality is one and fundamentally experiential.

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