
Interviews/Podcasts
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EconTalk: Free Will Is Real (with Kevin Mitchell) Dec 15 2025 https://www.econtalk.org/free-will-is-real-with-kevin-mitchell/
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The Giant’s Shoulder: Dr Kevin Mitchell: What Causes Autism?, Bad Science, Tylenol & The Gut Microbiome! Nov 25th 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie0SZBKHNks
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Decoding the Gurus: Autism, Microbiomes, & Mice Burying Marbles with Kevin Mitchell 18th November 2025 https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/autism-microbiomes-mice-burying-marbles-with-kevin-mitchell
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I, Scientist, with Balazs Kegel. Kevin Mitchell: free agency. May 5th 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqxq-BiCr-M
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Wellington Square Bookshop - Kevin J Mitchell - Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will March 19th 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_G8iznaXC0
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Reason with Science. Genetics and the Brain with Kevin Mitchell Feb 15th 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOyNWCjBuQc
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The Dissenter: Kevin Mitchell: Free Will, Robert Sapolsky, the Genomic Code, and Human Embryo Editing Aug 4th 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euuhGjxVmTE
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Know More Know Less. Free Will, Genetics, Autism, and What Makes You... You w/ Dr. Kevin Mitchell Jun 26th 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntWpH97LXog&t=835s
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Exploring the Mind Lecture Series- Mitchell & Sapolsky Debate "Do We Have Free Will?" UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain Oct 25th 2024 https://video.ucdavis.edu/media/Exploring+the+Mind+Lecture+Series-+Mitchell++Sapolsky++Debate+%22Do+We+Have+Free+Will%22/1_ulil0emm
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Mendelspod: Is there Free Will? Geneticist Kevin Mitchell Makes the Evolutionary Argument. Sept 12th 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuiEKvQhSIk
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Interintellect: Kevin Mitchell: How Evolution Gave Us the Power of Free Will. July 26th 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc0aclw0DDI
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Giant’s Shoulder. Neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell: Free Will, Neuroplasticity Myths and Microbiome Scandals. April 30th 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VGWzGqA32E&t=13s
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Center for Inquiry, Canada. Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will, with Kevin Mitchell. Mar 20th 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COwc-0x3_N4
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Decoding the Gurus: Interview with Kevin Mitchell on Agency and Evolution 6th March 2024 https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/interview-with-kevin-mitchell-on-agency-and-evolution
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Factually! with Adam Conover: Feb 14th 2024. Free Will Absolutely Does Exist with Dr. Kevin Mitchell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26NgJfU84Do
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Jack Roycroft-Sherry: What Is Free Will And Do We Have It? - Kevin Mitchell Jan 1st 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJVLN0Okva4
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European Institute of Science in Management: Dec 14th 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7R-UMv6SmM
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Philosophical Trials. Robert Sapolsky vs Kevin Mitchell: The Biology of Free Will Nov 17th 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9Y1Q8vhX5Y&t=1734s
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Converging Dialogues. An Evolutionary Journey of Free Will: A Dialogue with Kevin Mitchell. Oct 9th 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cLwa6eKIwI
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Brain Inspired: BI 175 Kevin Mitchell: Free Agents Oct 3rd 2023https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klj0ZnmPtu8
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The Dissenter: Kevin Mitchell - Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will Oct 2nd 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Euv_pwsAkkQ
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Mind-Body Solution: How Did Evolution Give Us Free Will? Free Agents & Cognitive Realism | Kevin Mitchell Aug 12th 2023https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdlkYGbuD7Q
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The Human Podcast. Life & Research of Neurogeneticist, Kevin Mitchell. Oct 13th 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwLzSHKC4G8&t=2852s
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Brain Inspired. BI 111 Kevin Mitchell and Erik Hoel: Agency, Emergence, Consciousness https://braininspired.co/podcast/111/
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The Dissenter: 24th May 2021 Kevin Mitchell: Psychological Epigenetics, and Other Fads in Neuroscience https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ugbm6HJko4
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PROFILE McKenna C. “Kevin Mitchell”. BJPsych Bull. 2020 Apr;44(2):81-83. doi: 10.1192/bjb.2020.18. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7283122/
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The Dissenter Interview, Dec 2019. Kevin Mitchell - Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBc9Ava4Dgg
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Radio New Zealand with Jim Mora: How does our genetic heritage influence our psychological traits? Nov 2019: https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/2018723861/how-does-our-genetic-heritage-influence-our-psychological-traits
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KERA Radio: Are Male and Female Brains Really So Different? https://think.kera.org/2019/10/09/are-male-and-female-brains-really-so-different/?_ga=2.35606433.1662657642.1578842623-153343508.1578842621
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Brain Science podcast: BS 159 Kevin Mitchell, author of "Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are" July 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3lns4uRI0I
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Everything Hertz podcast - 85: GWAS big teeth you have, grandmother (with Kevin Mitchell) https://everythinghertz.com/85
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BBC4: Destiny and the Brain, May 2019: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/49Fc0MlJkgt2mK03RZTDlHC/how-you-can-re-programme-your-brain
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CNN Interview: Chinese scientists implant human genes into monkeys' brains https://edition.cnn.com/videos/tv/2019/04/12/news-stream-kristie-lu-stout-transgenic-monkey-study-mitchell-march-12.cnn
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The NOUS podcast, Jan 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgblOtbQkiY
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On writing "INNATE" - 2019 interview: https://www.tcd.ie/research/researchmatters/kevin-mitchell.php
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Swami Sarvapriyananda + Kevin Mitchell: Genetics Is Karma - Rubin Museum, Nov 2018 https://soundcloud.com/rubinmuseum/swami-sarvapriyananda-kevin-mitchell-genetics-is-karma
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The Not Old Better Show - Wiring the Brain - Nov 2018 https://open.spotify.com/episode/3u8N5XpKoQBPGZlG3G5ieZ
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Strange Quark Podcast, with Marie Boran, Richard Roche and David Delany, on Intelligence, Consciousness and Memory (2017) https://soundcloud.com/thestrangequark/strange-quark-episode-5
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October 2015: Irish Times “Unthinkable” Debate: “Are science and religion really in conflict?” http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/are-science-and-religion-really-in-conflict-the-unthinkable-debate-1.2383902
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June 2013: Participant in “Health Risks: The Personal Genomics Debate” at the Science Gallery (also broadcast on Newstalk’s Futureproof and on RTE’s Science Squad) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbxLnbV51Kc
TALKS
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Free Will in an Indeterministic Universe Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Dec 2nd 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t61NVImiGZU&t=74s
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The Evolution of Free Will. The Darwin Club, May 31st 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9pHD1KZaXA
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The Evolution of Free Will. Royal Institution, May 14th 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXwRjb7WF7
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Taking the "neurodevelopmental" part of "neurodevelopmental disorders" seriously. MRC IEU at University of Bristol. Oct 23rd 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fy-17EI3mc
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The Evolution of Selfhood, Agency and Control. Workshop at Tufts University on Natural and Artificial Intelligence, Agency, and Care. Aug 31st 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rntqmQLcKkk
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Defense Against The Dark Arts - or How Not to Fool Yourself with Stats. A guest lecture I gave in 2023 for the Cognitive, Computational and Systems Neuroscience graduate program at Washington University, St. Louis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHs04LZzKp0
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What have we learned from psychiatric genetics? Cardiff 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p150taZ4F7I
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The Evolution of Agency. Santa Fe Institute. April 2nd 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxpbvE8V0Dg&t=3422s
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The messy reality of the genetics of neurodevelopmental disorders. CAIDPN conference 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx4I-QSGaIs
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The evolution of agency, or how to give a robot a soul. NAISys 2020, CSHL. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FL1xBX-dz4
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The Developmental Origins of Our Psychological Traits. WWNDev Forum, Sept 10th, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oMaWT9SOSs
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How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are - with Kevin Mitchell. The Royal Institution. Jan 23rd 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkJqkGX0ThQ
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Who’s in charge? You or your brain? TEDxTrinityCollegeDublin. Mar 28th 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZo9wXKmwFk&t=373s
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January 2016: Bright Club presentation, on the real genetics behind the X-Men. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAjwe9M3kxM
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FENS Summer School 2014 - Kevin Mitchell on "Genetic heterogeneity of neurodevelopmental disorders" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6Y5izAfMow
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“Irritable Brain Syndrome”. October 2013: Public lecture in DublinTalks series, organised by Royal Irish Academy: http://www.dublintalks.ie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TayM7rkijy4
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“The Miswired Brain: from neurodevelopment to brain disease” July 2013: Public Lecture at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n6jWQs6_hc
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“Nature, nurture and noise” June 2012: IGNITE talk – Science Gallery. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDFh74eENuw