The paradox of choice - Barry Schwartz

http://www.ted.com Psychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central tenet of western societies: freedom of choice. In Schwartz's estimation, choice has made us not freer but more paralyzed, not happier but more dissatisfied.

Science Showing We Don't Have Free Will? - Daniel Dennett

A public lecture by Daniel Dennett, Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University, entitled "Is Science Showing That We Don't Have Free Will?" Dennett discusses some of the current work in psychology bearing on this question, and draws on Hume, Darwin and Turing, three Enlightenment heroes. Part of the University of Edinburgh's Enlightenment Lecture Series.