Does Neuroscience Disprove Free Will? w/ Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. & Prof. James Madden

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Join Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. of Aquinas 101, Godsplaining, and Pints with Aquinas for an off-campus conversation with Dr. James Madden about his latest Thomistic Institute, "Does Neuroscience Disprove Free Will?"

Does Neuroscience Disprove Free Will? w/ Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. & Prof. James Madden (Off-Campus Conversations)

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00:00 Introduction
4:25 Reframing the free will debate
7:45 Reason-sensitive action
11:32 Is free will culturally or institutionally dependent?
16:58 Achieving authentic human freedom
23:05 The great threat to freedom is ignorance
29:46 Freedom as practical wisdom
39:19 Conclusion

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