Gregg Caruso puts the case against free will (ft. Nate Frederick)

Gregg D. Caruso is Professor of Philosophy at SUNY Corning, Visiting Fellow at the New College of the Humanities (NCH London), and Honorary Professor of Philosophy at Macquarie University. He is also Co-Director of the Justice Without Retribution Network housed at the University of Aberdeen School of Law. His research focuses on free will, moral responsibility, punishment, philosophy of law, jurisprudence, social and political philosophy, moral philosophy, philosophy of mind, moral psychology, and neurolaw. His books include Rejecting Retributivism: Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice (2021), Just Deserts: Debating Free Will (w/Daniel C. Dennett) (2021), Free Will and Consciousness: A Determinist Account of the Illusion of Free Will (2012), ​Exploring the Illusion of Free Will and Moral Responsibility (2013), Science and Religion: 5 Questions (2014), Neuroexistentialism: Meaning, Morals, and Purpose in the Age of Neuroscience ​(co-edited w/Owen Flanagan); and Free Will Skepticism in Law and Society (co-edited w/Elizabeth Shaw and Derk Pereboom).   http://www.greggcaruso.com/ LYRICS: Careful of the friends you have Remember you can choose You may not like their attitudes But in time you'll share their views Everything gets past around From attributes to vice If you accept their company You'll soon take their advice You are the average Of the five people With whom you spend most of the time You are the average You only know what you've been taught You think your culture's thoughts You look around the place you work With an expression of disgust At people who you'll never be There's no one you can trust But take a look from a little bit up You already look the same You're blending in quite perfectly You fit inside the frame You fit inside the frame You are the average Of the five people With whom you spend most of the time You are the average You only know what you've been taught You think your culture's thoughts Even you ambitions What you want from life Can be enabled or destroyed By your husband or your wife Your friends can help you be a better person Or lead you on the path to sin You might think you can rise above it But in time you will sink in In time you will sink in You are the average Of the five people With whom you spend most of the time You are the average You only know what you've been taught You think your culture's thoughts