Philosophy Cafe Event
- Time:
- 13:00 - 14:00
- Date:
- 3 May 2012
- Venue:
- John Hansard Gallery Highfield Campus University of Southampton SO17 1BJ
For more information regarding this event, please email Lifelong Learning Team at lifelonglearning@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
Free will: a necessary illusion?
Subjectively we view ourselves as in control of most of our actions, and we think that other people are largely responsible for theirs. But objectively we can see that what we do is caused by many events and circumstances stretching back into the past, which has suggested to some people that free will is an illusion. Which view should win out? Or is there no real conflict between them?
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Speaker information
Prof Chris Janaway,Professor of Philosophy, Director of Postgraduate Recruitment