Bishopston Not A Book Group  : February

Free Will

• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy   
• Liberterian Free Will or Hard Determinism   Will
• Compatiblism : Crash Course Philosophy   

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Bereitschaftspotential or Readiness Potential

• Wikipedia   
• Libet 1985 - Unconscious cerebral initiative and the role of conscious will in voluntary action   
• Klemm 2010 Free will debates: Simple experiments are not so simple   
• Neuroscience of free will   
• In our Time : Free Will   
• Do the Libet Experiments Refute Free Will? spoiler - NO   

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Common Faults in Thinking Rationally

• List of Fallacies - Wikipedia   
• Home economicus   
• Dan Ariely : Are we in control of our own decisions? Ted talk   
• Choice Blindness: Petter Johansson Ted talk   

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Decisions in a social context

• Fundametal Attribution error - Wikipedia   
• Stanford Prison Experiment   
• Group Think and Social Media - Psychology Today   

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Other links

• Youtube: What game theory teaches us about war | Simon Sinek   
• TED Talk: The Paradox of Choice - Barry Shwartz   
• Blog: Terry Hathaway :Contemporary capitalism is not really a system of choice   
• The Secretary problem   
• TED talk:Tom Griffiths : 3 Ways to make better decisions   

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Behavioural economics - Nudge

• TED talk: David Asch : Why its so hard to make healthy decisions   
• The Nudge Unit   

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The Big Idea episode

submitted by Will

• BBC sounds   
• John List, the Uber economist   
• Petter Johansson TED talk : Do you really know why you do what you do?   
• Petter Johansson's Choice Blindness Lab on Twitter   
• Prof Lisa Bortolottoi, The Epistemic Innocence of Irrational Beliefs   
• Ernst Fehr   
• Joshua Knobe   

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Genetic influence on decision-making

• The Life Scientific - Giles Yeo on the genetics of obesity   
• Genetic Factors of Individual Differences in Decision Making in Economic Behavior   

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Related sessions

• Nudge   
• The Undoing Project - Tversky and Kahneman   

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