10.20.06

Dawkins on free will

Posted in Evolution at 6:54 pm by nemo

Telic Thoughts digs up a comment at UD:

“I’m just not interested in free will, it’s not a big question for me.”-Dawkins

I find it funny Mr Dawkins would say that after he said the following as part of his “Dangerous idea”…

“But doesn’t a truly scientific, mechanistic view of the nervous system make nonsense of the very idea of responsibility, whether diminished or not? Any crime, however heinous, is in principle to be blamed on antecedent conditions acting through the accused’s physiology, heredity and environment. Don’t judicial hearings to decide questions of blame or diminished responsibility make as little sense for a faulty man as for a Fawlty car?”-Dawkins

In all fairness the same tactics can be used on those who are too facile with assumptions about free will.

Didn’t I say something about Kant’s Third Antinomy at history-and-evolution.com?

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