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Workshop Science and Intentional Action & Colloquium by Alfred Mele, 26th of June
26 June 2018 @ 08:00 - 17:00
Workshop Science and Intentional Action & Colloquium by Alfred Mele, 26th of June, VU Amsterdam
Workshop Science and Intentional Action
In recent decades, intentional action has become an important object of study in neuroscience and psychology. Even though experiments such as those conducted by Benjamin Libet do not show that we lack free will or that actions are initiated by the brain, they do raise questions about whether and to what extent neuroscientific and psychological research can contribute to our understanding of intentional action.
The workshop is supported by Research Institute CLUE+ and the Department of Philosophy.
Program:
10:00 – 10:15 Gerrit Glas – Welcome and introduction
10:15 – 11:00 Lieke Asma – Reporting Intentions
Coffee break
11:15 – 12:00 Alfred Mele – On Snubbing Proximal Intentions
12:00 – 12:45 Annemarie Kalis – Intentions as Real Patterns
Lunch
Location: VU Amsterdam, main building, 12A33.
Registration: Participation is free, please register for the workshop (and optional lunch) by sending an email to Lieke Asma: l.j.f.asma@vu.nl.
Colloquium Free Will and Luck: Compatibilism vs. Incompatibilism
In Free Will and Luck (2006), I presented what I called “the problem of present luck” for libertarians about free will (people who contend that free will exists and is incompatible with determinism). Since then, some philosophers have argued that compatibilists about free will are faced with a very similar problem, and I have argued that the allegedly very similar problems are in fact very different. But now there is a novel compatibilist view that does seem to face a problem very similar to the problem of present luck (List 2014). In this talk, I present an abbreviated version of the problem of present luck, explain why some allegedly very similar problems for compatibilists are actually very different, explain that List’s novel compatibilist view does face a very similar problem, and argue that his view demands more for free action than a compatibilist should demand.
Alfred R. Mele is the William H. and Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University. He is the author of eleven books and over 200 articles and an editor of six books. He is past director of two multi-million dollar, interdisciplinary projects: the Big Questions in Free Will project (2010-13) and the Philosophy and Science of Self-Control project (2014-17).
The colloquium is supported by Research Institute CLUE+, the Department of Philosophy, and Study Association Icarus.
Program:
15:30 – Opening by Leon de Bruin
15:35 – 16:15 Alfred Mele
16:15 – 16:30 Response by René van Woudenberg
16:30 – 17:00 Q&A, followed by drinks
Location: VU Amsterdam, main building, 12A33.
Registration: Participation is free, please register by sending an email to Lieke Asma: l.j.f.asma@vu.nl.
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