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Creatures and their Minds. Workshop for a Creature-Based Philosophy of Mind and Action
Thursday\, May 22\, 2025\, University of Southampton
A dominant view in contemporary philosophy of mind and action is that mental states are internal particulars. That is\, mental states are components of a creature &ndash\; whether material or ghostlike. A creature-based philosophy of mind and action opposes this architecture-based philosophy of mind and action. According to a creature-based philosophy of mind and action\, mental states are simply states of creatures. A number of significant consequences follow from this view. For example\, first\, mental causation\, if there is such a thing\, is not the causation of actions by (parts of) the brain or the mind. Second\, dispositionalism about the mental is far more plausible than philosophers of mind typically assume.
Speakers:
Maria Alvarez\, KCL
Brice Bantegnie\, University of Southampton / UC Riverside
William Hornett\, University of Cambridge
John Hyman\, UCL
Andrea White\, University of Leeds
Workshop program \;(British Summer Time / UTC +1): 9:30: introduction to the Workshop
9:45 &ndash\; 11:05: John Hyman &ndash\; &ldquo\;Action\, Integration\, and Two-Way Powers.&rdquo\;
11:05 &ndash\; 11:20 coffee break
11:20 &ndash\; 12:40: Andrea White &ndash\; &ldquo\;Non-Relational Theories of Causation and Action Explanation&rdquo\;
12:40 &ndash\; 13:40 lunch
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13:40 &ndash\; 15:00: Brice Bantegnie &ndash\; &ldquo\;On the Analogy between Knowledge and Action&rdquo\;
15:00 &ndash\; 15:15: coffee break
15:15 &ndash\; 16:35: William Hornett &ndash\; &ldquo\;Animal Rationality from Inside Ethics&rdquo\;
16:40 &ndash\; 18:00: Maria Alvarez &ndash\; &ldquo\;Agency and Abilities&rdquo\;
Attendance is free and open to all\, but numbers for in-person attendance are limited. \; For online or in-person registration\, \;please email b.bantegnie@soton.ac.uk \;with the subject line &ldquo\;Creature-based philosophy of mind and action workshop: in-person registration&rdquo\; or &ldquo\;Creature based philosophy of mind and action workshop: online registration&rdquo\;.
Full details of location\, accessibility\, etc.\, will be circulated in due course. For any inquiry\, please contact: b.bantegnie@soton.ac.uk
We are committed to the BPA/SWiP good practice scheme for conferences and seminar series. This workshop is part of the activities of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Postdoctoral Guarantee Fellowship project UNIPHIMIND. It is co-sponsored by the UKRI Postdoctoral Fellowships Guarantee and by the Mind Association.
Workshop organizer: \;Brice Bantegnie\, University of Southampton/UC Riverside