It exists . it does not exist . The question of free will

Whether or not we are free with our small and big decisions in life, the practical philosopher Dietmar Hübner tells us at Herrenhausen Late. Date 10.12.2024
>Lecture shortened here /Original 01:20 /https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd4nePqoSFM <
Every day we make decisions and take it for granted that we do it of our own free will. But is there actually free will, or do causal laws determine our actions? Is there any contradiction between the two at all, or can free will and causality be reconciled in the end? The essential basic positions on this question have been outlined since the Enlightenment at the latest. But even in recent times, interesting approaches are still being developed on how to define and justify free will.

In his lecture, Prof. Hübner from the Institute of Philosophy at Leibniz University Hannover will give an overview of the most important options for free will and highlight various examples: The spectrum ranges from unwilling addicts to perplexed soccer players to overwhelmed prediction computers.
--
comment:When professional expertise and the greatest skill in didactic reduction and preparation coincide so happily with acting talent and the presentation of the results of years of reflection seems child's play, one wishes - out of well-founded gratitude - that free will and seamless causality may not be mutually exclusive.
--
Channel information
www.youtube.com/c/DietmarHübner
12,800 subscribers
71 Videos
2,154,664 Views
Joined on 09.09.2012
--
text from https://www.dietmar-huebner.de/ :
Dietmar Hübner studied philosophy and physics at the universities of Bonn and Cambridge (UK) from 1989 to 1999. He holds a diploma (Bonn 1995) and an M.Phil. (Cambridge 1995) in physics. In 1999 he received his doctorate from the University of Bonn with a philosophical thesis on the relationship between decision theory, philosophy of history and ecological ethics. In 2007 he completed his habilitation at the University of Bonn with a philosophical paper on distributive justice.

From 1999 to 2010 Dietmar Hübner worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Science and Ethics (IWE) at the University of Bonn. Since 2010 he has held the professorship for "Practical Philosophy, in particular Ethics of Science" at the Institute for Philosophy at the Leibniz University of Hannover (LUH).

His research focuses on general ethics, political philosophy, applied ethics and metaphysics. He has worked on topics such as free will and responsibility, justice, power, escalation, rational action under risk and uncertainty, narrative structures in historical thinking and historiography, human-animal chimeras, autonomous vehicles, genetic testing, embryo protection, enhancement and anthropotechnology, and discrimination by computer algorithms.
--
April 2025:
On April 15, 2025, Dietmar Hübner will present his book “What makes us free” at the Böttger bookstore in Bonn.