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