*The First Annual ULaval Everything Agency Conference 2024*
\nVenue: Laval University\, Qué\;bec City\, Canada.
\nDates: April 25-26\, 2024
\nWEBSITE: \;https://www.fp.ulaval.ca/laval-everything-agencylagentivite-dans-tous-ses-etats
\nKeynote Speakers: \;John Brunero \;(University of Nebraska&ndash\;Lincoln)\, \;Jennifer Lackey \;(Northwestern University)\, \;Berislav Maru&scaron\;ić \;(University of Edinburgh)\, \;Timothy Williamson \;(Oxford).
\nThe first Annual ULaval Everything Agency Conference will be held at Laval University\, Qué\;bec City\, Canada. The conference aims to bring together researchers working on theoretical aspects pertaining to agency: philosophy of action\, philosophy of emotions\, epistemology\, normativity broadly construed\, meta-ethics and ethical theory in connection to agency\, political philosophy\, political science\, foundational issues in artificial intelligence\, and philosophy of biology. In addition to the keynote talks\, there will be eight slots for papers selected through the call for papers.
\nWe invite submissions of abstracts on the general theme of the conference. Among possible topics are intentional action\, constraints of rationality on intention\, constraints of coherence on intention and other attitudes\, the normativity of attitudes\, norms\, and reasons for mental attitudes\, including emotions and belief\, the rationality of mental attitudes\, sources of norms and rationality\, epistemic agency\, foundational issues in ethical\, political theory\, degrees of agency\, political agency\, agency in artificial intelligence\, roots of agency and philosophy of biology\, formal representations of agency\, agency and knowledge\, agency and norms of belief\, emotional agency. This is not an exhaustive list of possible topics for selected talks.
\nSubmitted abstracts should be \;750 words \;long and be prepared for blind review. Abstracts have to be submitted electronically to the following email address: \;lavaleverythingagency@gmail.com. \;The deadline for the submission is \;November 1\, 2023.
\nSpeakers of accepted papers will be invited to the conference reception and will have two nights of accommodation provided on the campus of Laval University. Up to three travel bursaries will be offered to graduate students or postdocs whose papers have been selected to help cover their travel expenses.
\nWe would like to encourage\, in particular\, submissions from members of underrepresented groups.
\nEveryone is welcome to the conference\, attendance is free\, but registration is required. Please register by email at \;lavaleverythingagency@gmail.com. The deadline for registration is April 15\, 2024.
\nOrganizers: Arturs Logins (Laval) (arturs.logins@fp.ulaval.ca) and Catherine Rioux (Laval) (catherine.rioux@fp.ulaval.ca).
\nWebsites \;: \;https://www.fp.ulaval.ca/laval-everything-agencylagentivite-dans-tous-ses-etats \;
\nhttp://loginphilosophy.com/the-first-annual-laval-everything-agency-conference-2024 \;
\n***PROGRAM***
\nThe First Annual Laval Everything Agency Conference Program 2024
\nApril 25th-26th\, Université\; Laval\, Qué\;bec\, Canada
\n---Thursday\, April 25th---
\nPavillon Alphonse-Desjardins\, 2325 Rue de l&rsquo\;Université\;\, Qué\;bec
\nRoom ADJ-2320 \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;
\n8:30-9:00: \;Welcome/coffee
\n9:00-10:30: \;Berislav Maru&scaron\;ić (University of Edinburgh) &ldquo\;The Ethicist and the Ontologist: On self-Prediction in Practical Reasoning.&rdquo\;
\nChair: Patrick Turmel (Université\; Laval)
\n10:30-10:45: \;Coffee pause
\n10:45-11:30: \;Derek Lam (California State University\, Sacramento) &ldquo\;Not being sure of Myself.&rdquo\; \;
\nChair: \;Romane \;Marcotte (Université\; Laval)
\n11:30-12:15: \;Yuan Tian (Harvard) &ldquo\;An Interpersonal Form of Faith.&rdquo\;
\nChair: \;Vincent Rochelle (Université\; Laval)
\n12:15-13:30: \;Lunch
\n13:30-15:00: \;John Brunero (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) &ldquo\;Reasons for Action\, Reasons for Intentions\, and Agency.&rdquo\; \;
\nChair: Catherine Rioux (Université\; Laval)
\n15:00-15:15: \;Coffee pause
\n15:15-16:00: \;Eugene Chislenko (Temple University) &ldquo\;Blame as Attention.&rdquo\;
\nChair: Laura Silva (Université\; Laval)
\n16:00-16:45: \;Chris Blake-Turner (Oklahoma State University) &ldquo\;Rational Intelligibility and The Kernel of Truth in The Guise of the Good&rdquo\; \;
\nChair: David James Barnett (University of Toronto) \;
\n17:30-19:30: \;Cocktail \;
\nThe Everything Agency Conference organizers are pleased to invite our guests to a cocktail reception held in our very own ward\, the Fé\;lix-Antoine Savard Pavillon.
\n---Friday\, April 26th---
\nPavillon Alphonse-Desjardins\, 2325 Rue de l&rsquo\;Université\;\, Qué\;bec
\nRoom ADJ-2320 \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;
\n8:30-9:00: \;Welcome/coffee
\n9:00-10:30: \;Timothy Williamson (Oxford) "Decision theory and acting on what one knows"
\nChair: Artūrs Logins (Université\; Laval) \;
\n10:30-10:45: \;Coffee pause
\n10:45-11:30: \;Alison Springle (The University of Miami) &ldquo\;Acting for Reasons : An Acorn Account.&rdquo\; \;
\nChair: Pierre-Olivier Mé\;thot (Université\; Laval)
\n11:30-12:15: \;Austen McDougal (Princeton) &ldquo\;Motives\, the New Frontier for Control.&rdquo\; \;
\nChair : \;Joshua Brecka (University of Toronto) \;
\n12:15-13:30: \;Lunch
\n13:30-15:00: \;Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern University) \;&ldquo\;Epistemic Agency in Action&rdquo\; \; \; \;
\nChair: Jacob Hamel-Mottiez \;(Université\; Laval)
\n15:00-15:15: \;Coffee pause
\n15:15-16:00: \;Rowan Mellor (Northwestern University) &ldquo\;Why Cooperate? Team Reasoning and Unwillingness.&rdquo\; \;
\nChair: Nathan Howard (University of Toronto)
\n16:00-16:45: \;Jay Jian (National Academy of Taiwan) &ldquo\;Instrumental Agency and the Pre-conditions of Ends.&rdquo\; \;
\nChair: Miriam Schleifer McCormick (University of Richmond)
\n16:45-17:00: \;Closing Remarks
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