Colloquium: Free Will in Social Psychology

Among its efforts to nourish collegial dialogue across disciplinary boundaries among faculty and students, EKU Libraries is hosting hour-long, informally moderated colloquiums on selected Fridays at 3:30 p.m. in the new Crabbe Library Research and Instruction Commons Conference Room, 204G.

Each colloquium session is devoted to text, video or audio material chosen by a faculty member who moderates the discussion. The material may be of any subject, scholarly or topical, peer-reviewed or popular, as well as original work. The only requirement is that the item(s) under discussion be accessible online (including any of EKU Libraries’ many subscription resources).

On Friday, April 15, Dr. Matthew Winslow will moderate discussion of Free Will in Social Psychology:

The topic of free will has challenged thinkers and inspired debate across multiple disciplines for centuries. What can social psychology contribute? Social psychology is unlikely to provide a convincing answer to questions about whether people have free will. However, social psychology can provide considerable information about the inner processes and the control of behavior. To thinkers who believe in free will, social psychology provides vital evidence about how it happens and is used. To thinkers who disbelieve in free will, social psychology can provide evidence about what real phenomena are mistaken for it.

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Of related interest:

• Holding Back [audio/video]
• Do You Have Free Will? Yes, It’s the Only Choice
• Is Free Will Required for Moral Responsibility?
• Experimental Philosophy and the Problem of Free Will
• “Free Will” (Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
• Free Will [audio]
• Free Will and the Court [audio]
• Oxford Handbook of Free Will
• Free Will and Consciousness: How Might They Work?
• Conscious Will and Responsibility
• Self Control in Society, Mind, and Brain
• Do Conscious Thoughts Cause Behavior?
• Conscious Thought is for Facilitating Social and Cultural Interactions: How Mental Simulations Serve the Animal-Culture Interface