Integrating Science and Free Will

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Integrating Science and Free Will

Tristan de Liege

October 24, 2025

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Podcast audio:

In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Tristan de Liège, Mike Mazza, Gregory Salmieri and Ben Bayer discuss Kevin Mitchell’s book, Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will.

Topics include:

The locus of free will;
Moral responsibility;
The relevance of quantum mechanics;
Determinism;
Aristotle;
Randomness and indeterminacy;
“Agent causation” vs entity causation;
Blank slate.

Resources:

Harry Binswanger’s essay “Volition as Cognitive Self-Regulation.”

This episode was recorded on October 9, 2025, and posted on October 24, 2025.

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Tristan de Liege

Tristan de Liège, PhD in philosophy, is a junior fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute.

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