Galen Strawson on Free Will Pessimism
Melvyn Bragg is the interviewer: The issue about whether or not "science" tells us the Universe is deterministic or random doesn't really have any relevance, because science presupposes human agency: reductionist science describes conditions that need to be established in a laboratory, and the only way to do this is for a human being to carry out whatever steps are necessary to bring those conditions about. If the subject of the scientific theory is a natural phenomenon then there must be some necessary context in which it occurs and again the science requires that a human being makes those particular observations, of monkeys in the forest in Costa Rica, say, or scientists in a laboratory in Berkeley. Subscribe to Philosophy Overdose . Vitaly Vanchurin on an idea inspired by modern cosmology: Link to his publications on INSPIRE . Subscribe to Curt Jaimungal . Alison Gopnik has an interesting perspective: see Alison Gopnik - The Evolution of Human Intelligences . It s...