When I’m not teaching or writing for academics, I enjoy bringing philosophy to a wider audience. Below you’ll find links to a podcast that I co-host; some video and podcast interviews (and a debate!) on free will, time travel, and divine foreknowledge; and some writing I have done with non-specialists in mind.
Podcast: The Free Will Show
Do any of us really have free will? Hasn’t science disproved free will? How could we have free will if God exists and foreknows everything that we will ever do?
The Free Will Show provides a beginner-friendly introduction to the topic of free will while at the same time exposing listeners to cutting-edge developments on the topic. Hosted by a couple of philosophers, Taylor Cyr and Matt Flummer, The Free Will Show features interviews with guests on a diverse array of issues relating to free will, including issues in science and theology.
You can listen at the show’s website, thefreewillshow.com, or wherever you get your podcasts (including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts).
Interview on Free Will and Determinism (a Basic Introduction) on The Analytic Christian
Interview on the Philosophy of Everything Everywhere All at Once on Brain in a Vat
Interview on Compatibilism on Tjump
Interview on My Recent Work on Moral Luck and Moral Responsibility
Also available as a podcast here.
Interview on Whether We Have Free Will on The Divide
Interview on Manipulation and Compatibilism on The London Lyceum
https://www.buzzsprout.com/412714/8419187-free-will-compatibilism-and-manipulation-with-taylor-cyr
Discussion of the Philosophy of Loki (with Matt Flummer) on Parker’s Pensees
Also available as a podcast here.
Discussion of the Philosophy of WandaVision (with Matt Flummer) on Parker’s Pensees
Also available as a podcast here.
Debate on Free Will and Divine Foreknowledge (with Philip Swenson) on Capturing Christianity
Interview on the Possibility of Time Travel on Parker’s Pensees
Also available as a podcast here.
Interview on Free Will Basics (and My View) on Parker’s Pensees
Also available as a podcast here.
Interview on Tenet and the Grandfather Paradox on Parker’s Pensees
Interview on Free Will and Divine Foreknowledge on The Analytic Christian (formerly Crash Course Apologetics)
Interview on God’s Timelessness and Human Free Will on The Analytic Christian
Discussion on Free Will and Divine Foreknowledge (with Sean Clements) on Majesty of Reason
Popular Philosophy Writing
5. “‘Libertarian Free Will’: How to Avoid Some Confusions,” on “The Ledger” Blog at The London Lyceum, 2021.
4. “5 Books on Free Will,” on “The Ledger” Blog at The London Lyceum, 2021.
3. “Time Travel and Causal Loops in Dark,” andphilosophy.com (The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series), 2020.
2. “Manipulation and Moral Responsibility,” 1000-Word Philosophy, 2019.
1. “Time Travel,” 1000-Word Philosophy, 2018. [Italian translation published by L’Indiscreto, 2019.]
Other Writing
2. “Learning in the Time of the Pandemic” (with Philip Swenson), on the “Moral Talk” Blog at Psychology Today.
1. “Why (and How) Christians Should Study Philosophy,” at The Gospel Coalition. [Video interview about this piece on the Finding Truth YouTube channel.]
Taylor W. Cyr 