endsdontjustifythemeans.com]]>https://endsdontjustifythemeans.com/podcastSubstackTue, 08 Sep 2026 04:11:39 GMThttps://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/3063360.rssRebecca Lowephilosophical writing on freedom and all the other cool things episodicRebecca Lowetheendsdontjustifythemeans@substack.comNoIn this episode, Peter van Inwagen and I discuss free will. We talk about what kind of thing free will might be, whether there’s an ordinary notion of free will, whether we should talk about free agency instead of free will, the cost of getting hung up about ‘the will’, the relation between free will and determinism, the relation between free will and indeterminism, the relevance of agent causation, the relevance of moral realism, the relevance of probabilistic thinking, and much more. In short, we do some philosophy! I hope you enjoy it... 

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