Tag: Agatha Christie

Free-range red angus cattle on pasture, Argentina.

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Author
Michael Egnor
Date
May 31, 2020

Categorized
Arts & Culture, Ethics, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Agatha Christie, criminal justice, Determinism, Featured, free will, Jerry Coyne, Murder at the Vicarage (novel)}

No Free Will Means No Justice

_{Materialist biologist Jerry Coyne doesn’t seem to understand what denying free will would mean for the criminal justice system} _{Michael Egnor

May 31, 2020

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Arts & Culture, Ethics, Philosophy of Mind}

Without free will, no one is innocent. Who asks cattle on the way to the abattoir if they are guilty or innocent?