ARC Colloquium: Free Will, Language, and Neurosciences

›9:00 (25min)

Registration and distribution of materials

›9:25 (05min)

Welcome

›9:30 (40min)

André Bazzoni - Language and Free Will
André Bazzoni (UC Berkeley)

›10:10 (40min)

Andreas Schönau - The free will debate from an action-oriented perspective
Andreas Schönau (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)

›10:50 (40min)

Andrew Sims - To bind and to bias: language and affordance competition
Andrew Sims (Université catholique de Louvain)

›11:30 (15min)

Coffee break

›11:45 (40min)

Lászlo Bernáth - Why Libet-style experiments cannot refute all forms of libertarianism
Lászlo Bernáth (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

›12:25 (35min)

Marcus Missal - Free will, inhibition and impulsivity
Marcus Missal (Université catholique de Louvain)

›13:00 (1h30)

Lunch

›14:30 (40min)

Ariel Furstenberg & Haim Sompolinksy - Neuronal noise and free-will behaviour
Ariel Furstenberg & Haim Sompolinksy (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

›15:10 (40min)

Joana Rigato - Spontaneous decisions and free will: experiments with rodents and their implications for the philosophical debate
Joana Rigato (Champamilaud Research, Lisbon)

›15:50 (40min)

Anna Drozdzewska - The physical, the mental, and the informational
Anna Drozdzewska (Université catholique de Louvain)

›16:30 (15min)

Coffee break

›16:45 (1h15)

Alfred Mele - Free will and neuroscience: three persisting problems
Alfred Mele (Florida State University)