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EPS 48: Free Will, Luck, and Psychopaths- Guest Diana Hsieh

February 05, 2016

If you're born with all the markers of a psychopathic brain, can you really be blamed if you commit a crime that others in your family tree have committed? (Hear about Neuroscientist James Fallon's story.)

How much choice do we have in life, really?
What are we truly morally responsible for?
Is the person who plans a crime but doesn't get to carry it out because of a mistake as guilty as a person whose same evil pan worked?
These and other interesting and difficult questions are the topic of discussion today with my guest, philosopher Diana Hsieh.

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Thanks so very much for listening.
xo
-Lisa