The Harvard Society for Mind, Brain and Behavior presents:
A Battle of Wills: A discussion on free will, with professors Daniel Dennett, Joshua Greene, and Steven Pinker
What is free will? Do we have it? How can we coherently speak about it? How should ideas about free will impact our ideas of moral responsibility?
Join us for a symposium on these questions and more, featuring world-renowned professors of philosophy and psychology.
FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 2012
SCIENCE CENTER HALL B
3:00 PM – 4:45 PM
** Seating will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis **
Daniel Dennett is a University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy and the co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. His work has addressed consciousness, free will, evolution, and many other topics. He is the author of Consciousness Explained, Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, The Mind’s I, and Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon.
Joshua Greene is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. He leads the Moral Cognition Lab, a group dedicated to the study of moral judgment and decision-making that has been profiled in Discover magazine. He is also the author of the forthcoming book The Moral Brain and How to Use it.
Steven Pinker is a Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology. He conducts research on language and cognition, writes for publications such as the New York Times and Time, and is the author of eight books, including The Language Instinct, The Blank Slate, How The Mind Works, and, most recently, The Better Angels of Our Nature.
Related Situationist posts:
- The Situation of Self-Regulation
- The Situation of Willpower
- Bargh and Baumeister and the Free Will Debate — Part I & Part II
- The Death of Free Will and the Rise of Cheating
- Interview of Eric Kandel
- Coalition of the Will-less
- Dan Dennett – “Free Will, Responsibility, and the Brain”
- Dan Dennett at Harvard Law on ‘Free Will, Responsibility, and the Brain’
- Interview with Professor Joshua Greene
- Daniel Dennett on the Situation of our Brain
- Dan Dennett on our Interior Situation
- The Death of Free Will and the Rise of Cheating
- Clarence Darrow on the Situation of Crime and Criminals
- Person X Situation X System Dynamics
- Situation” Trumps “Disposition” – Part I & Part II
- The (Unconscious) Situation of our Consciousness – Part I, Part II, Part III, & Part IV
- Pinker on the Changing Situation of Violence
