Dr. Ernest Nagel gives a 1964 talk in which he argues that there is no incompatibility between free will and causal determinism. He works through a number of common objections to the compatibility human agency and determinism and defends against misconceptions of determinism by drawing on examples from physics. The talk is accessible to a general audience interested in philosophy of action, challenges to the liberal ideology of agency, and the ageold question of the meaning of free will.

This talk was given in 1964 by Dr. Ernest Nagel at the American University, Washington D.C. The audio has been slightly edited.

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