{"id":3450,"date":"2008-06-03T16:50:11","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T15:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/?p=3450"},"modified":"2020-10-19T20:19:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T19:19:04","slug":"freedom-and-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/freedom-and-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom and Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"

Patrick Haggard\/ Amber Jacobs\/\u00a0Thomas Pink<\/h3>\n


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6.30 – 8.00pm | Thursday 4 November 2010\u00a0<\/strong>
\nWolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, LSE<\/p>\n

Speakers
\nPatrick Haggard<\/strong>, Professor at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and in the Department of Psychology, University College London; Group Leader of the Action and Body Research Group
\nAmber Jacobs<\/strong>, Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, University of London
\nThomas Pink<\/strong>, Professor of Philosophy, King’s College London<\/p>\n

Chair
\n<\/strong>Kristina Musholt,<\/strong> LSE Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method and Deputy Director of the Forum for European Philosophy<\/p>\n

The debate about human freedom concerns the power we have to determine for ourselves how we act. It is a problem about nature and the place of humans within nature – do we have any powers or capacities that are radically different from those of other animals? Is freedom part of human nature? And it is a problem about morality – does morality require us to possess such powers? And how can freedom be both a human power and a human right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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