Programme
Wednesday, August 30, 2017
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Event |
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09:00 - 09:25
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Registration and distribution of materials - Registration and distribution of materials |
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09:25 - 09:30
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Welcome |
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09:30 - 10:10
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André Bazzoni - Language and Free Will - André Bazzoni (UC Berkeley) |
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10:10 - 10:50
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Andreas Schönau - The free will debate from an action-oriented perspective - Andreas Schönau (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) |
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10:50 - 11:30
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Andrew Sims - To bind and to bias: language and affordance competition - Andrew Sims (Université catholique de Louvain) |
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11:30 - 11:45
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Coffee break |
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11:45 - 12:25
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Lászlo Bernáth - Why Libet-style experiments cannot refute all forms of libertarianism - Lászlo Bernáth (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) |
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12:25 - 13:00
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Marcus Missal - Free will, inhibition and impulsivity - Marcus Missal (Université catholique de Louvain) |
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13:00 - 14:30
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Lunch |
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14:30 - 15:10
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Ariel Furstenberg & Haim Sompolinksy - Neuronal noise and free-will behaviour - Ariel Furstenberg & Haim Sompolinksy (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) |
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15:10 - 15:50
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Joana Rigato - Spontaneous decisions and free will: experiments with rodents and their implications for the philosophical debate - Joana Rigato (Champamilaud Research, Lisbon) |
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15:50 - 16:30
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Anna Drozdzewska - The physical, the mental, and the informational - Anna Drozdzewska (Université catholique de Louvain) |
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16:30 - 16:45
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Coffee break |
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16:45 - 18:00
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Alfred Mele - Free will and neuroscience: three persisting problems - Alfred Mele (Florida State University) |
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Thursday, August 31, 2017
| Time |
Event |
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09:00 - 09:40
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George Stamets - What would constitute evidence against free will? - George Stamets (University of Leeds) |
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09:40 - 10:20
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J. Brian Pitts - How science constrains mind-body interaction - J. Brian Pitts (Cambridge) |
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10:20 - 11:00
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Anna Michalska - Moral responsibility, free will, and executive control - Anna Michalska (Polish Academy of Sciences) |
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11:00 - 11:15
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Coffee break |
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11:15 - 12:30
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Peter Ulric Tse - The neural basis of the volitional mental operations in human imagination that afford our metafreedom - Peter Ulric Tse (Dartmouth) |
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12:30 - 14:00
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Lunch |
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14:00 - 14:40
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Lieke Asma - Conscious guidance and conscious causation - Lieke Asma (Abraham Kuyper Center) |
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14:40 - 15:20
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Hanoch Ben-Yami - Libet’s confusions - Hanoch Ben-Yami (Central European University) |
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15:20 - 16:00
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Olivier Sartenaer and Bernard Feltz - Free will, language, and the causal exclusion problem - Olivier Sartenaer and Bernard Feltz (Université catholique de Louvain) |
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16:00 - 16:15
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Coffee break |
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16:15 - 17:30
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Eddy Nahmias - Free will in the brain - Eddy Nahmias (Georgia State University) |
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