[SydPhil] 2024 Garven Lecture on Free Will Friday 20 September

[Kristie Miller]

Dear all,

This year’s Garven Lecture on Free will is titled Free Will, Felonies, and Phlogiston, and features Prof Manuel Vargas,  UCSD, and Assistant Professor Hannah Tierney, (Andersen Visiting Fellow) UCD. 

Doors open at 5.00 for a 5.30 start. 


Some things seem vulnerable to scientific disproof. For example, the contemporary scientific community doesn’t rely on formerly important scientific concepts like phlogiston, luminiferous aether, or elan vital. After lots of effort, scientists concluded that those things don’t exist. Other ideas, though, seem less vulnerable to scientific disproof. For example, it seems unlikely that scientific discoveries will show that marriages, money, or felonies don’t exist. Is free will more like marriage, money, and felonies or is it more like phlogiston, luminiferous aether, or elan vital? Many prominent scientists have thought that free will is more like the latter case, that is, it is the kind of thing that can be (or even has been) disproven by science. This talk makes the case for the other view, that is, that free will has a substantial, but imperfect, degree of insulation against scientific attempts to disprove it. The explanation for why is bound up in the role free will plays in our social practices.


Please see the link below to register, and for further details. 

All are welcome. 



https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/2024-garven-lecture-in-philosophy-free-will-felonies-and-phlogiston-tickets-994843843717?aff=oddtdtcreator





Professor Kristie Miller
Chair of Discipline,
Joint Director, the Centre for Time
School of Humanities,
The Centre for Time
The University of Sydney
Sydney Australia
Room S213, A 14 Main Quad

kristie.miller at sydney.edu.au
kristie_miller at yahoo.com
Ph: +612 9036 9663
https://www.kristiemiller.net 
https://www.centrefortime.org






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