Robert Sapolsky on Free Will

Meet Jared Diamond and Michael Shermer: The Michael Shermer Show, 379 Robert Sapolsky is the author of A Primates Memoir, The Trouble with Testosterone, and Why Zebras Dont Get Ulcers. His most recent book, Behave, was a New York Times bestseller and named a best book of the year by the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. He is a professor of biology and neurology at Stanford University and the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant. His new book is Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will. Shermer and Sapolsky discuss: free will, determinism, compatibilism, libertarian free will Christian Lists 3 related capacities for free will how what people believe about free will and determinism influences their behaviors the three horsemen of determinism: (1) reductionism (2) predetermination; (3) epiphenomenalism dualism punishment retributive vs. restorative justice Is the self an illusion game theory evolution of punishme