07/29/2009

More Food for Thought

Here are several other videos the readers of the blog might find of interest:

  1. Josh Knobe and Josh Greene on bloggingheads.tv talking about moral psychology.
  2. Patrick Haggard on Benjamin Libet on Free Will.
  3. Hagop Sarkissian on experimental philosophy and free will.
  4. Rebecca Saxe on neuroscience at VodPod.
  5. Video on a Robot with a Rat Brain on VodPod.
  6. Jim Fallon on psychopaths at TED.
  7. Shaun Nichols and Will Wilkinson on bloggingshead.tv on free will and moral psychology.
  8. William Safire and Michael Gazzaniga on Charlie Rose talking about The Ethical Brain (it starts at 31 min. 45 sec. into the program)
Happy viewing!  As always, if you have some favorite videos of your own to share, feel free to post them in the comment thread...
Jul 29, 2009 11:45:09 AM | Free Will, Moral and Legal Responsibility, Neuroethics, Neurolaw, Neuroscience

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