{"id":3942,"date":"2014-05-05T07:46:51","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T07:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/?p=3942"},"modified":"2014-05-24T11:38:15","modified_gmt":"2014-05-24T11:38:15","slug":"i-am-speaking-at-the-brighton-fringe-festival-on-free-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/2014\/05\/05\/i-am-speaking-at-the-brighton-fringe-festival-on-free-will\/","title":{"rendered":"I am speaking at the Brighton Fringe Festival on Free Will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I am pretty excited that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brightonspiegeltent.com\/2014\/05\/29\/philosophy-hour-2905\/\">my biggest talk to date<\/a> will take place later this month on Thursday 29th May in the Spiegeltent for <a href=\"http:\/\/boxoffice.brightonfringe.org\/literature\/6440\/philosophy-hour\">Philosophy Hour<\/a> at the Brighton Fringe Festival, one of the biggest fringe\/arts festival in the world.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"The Argus: Spiegeltent to return to Brighton Festival and Fringe\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theargus.co.uk\/resources\/images\/2345025.jpg?type=articleLandscape\" width=\"458\" height=\"272\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The venue is impressive and will seat about 300, I think. I am wondering if I will be in the middle and how this would work with screens and whatnot. \u00a0This is perhaps a little bit bigger than my usual pubs and university lecture theatres, so I had better not get too nervous!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I also need to update my free will talk with more psychological evidence that I have picked up along the way. I now include a bit on priming, and certainly want to make the connection between social scientific studies, psychological studies and the lack of free will.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Any studies which mark out a correlation and thus causation (somewhere, usually!) are implicitly accepting a causal link between two phenomena which implies a lack of free will, where one would expect more of a random distribution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Entry to this prestigious (wahey!) event is \u00a36 a pop, a bargain to see my winning charm and erudite exposition of a well-trodden debate&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/andieairfix.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/04\/moulin-rouge-outside.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"503\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"The-Brighton-Spiegeltent-Programme-Guide-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brightonspiegeltent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/The-Brighton-Spiegeltent-Programme-Guide-1.jpg\" width=\"482\" height=\"680\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am pretty excited that my biggest talk to date will take place later this month on Thursday 29th May&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,212,237],"tags":[1204,52,58,1300],"class_list":["post-3942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-will-and-determinism","category-general-philosophy","category-speaking-engagements","tag-brighton-fringe","tag-determinism","tag-free-will","tag-spiegeltent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}