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SUMMARY:II Blasco Disputatio: Does Free Will Require Alternative Possibilities?
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LOCATION:Valencia\, Spain\, 46010
DESCRIPTION:<p>Blasco Disputatio&nbsp\;is a yearly workshop designed to promote the discussion on topics in epistemology\, metaphysics\, the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language. Each edition of this workshop focuses on a particular issue to be disputed by two invited speakers that will defend divergent\, if not opposing\, views. A call for papers will be made for contributions that will explore further aspects of the topic.</p>\n<p>The availability of alternative courses of action seems to be a necessary condition on free will. How could an action be free\, if the agent could not possibly have done otherwise? However\, Harry Frankfurt&rsquo\;s well-known arguments seem to have established that freedom and moral responsibility do not require alternative courses of action. On Frankfurt&rsquo\;s influential conception\, freedom has to do with the peculiarities of the actual causal history that produces the action.&nbsp\;The 2016 edition of the Blasco Disputatio&nbsp\;will be mainly focused on the question of whether free will requires alternative possibilities and on the role of causation in a proper understanding of freedom\, but it is open to discussing any related issues in metaphysics and the philosophy of action. The invited papers\, together with a selection of the submitted papers\, will appear on a special issue in the journal&nbsp\;<em>Disputatio</em>.</p>\n<p>Invited speakers:&nbsp\;Carolina Sartorio (University of Arizona) and Carlos Moya (University of Valencia)</p>\n<p>Call for papers:&nbsp\;We invite submissions on any aspect of the debate on free will and the metaphysics of action. Authors should submit full papers (5000 words) or extended abstracts (2000 words) by&nbsp\;May 15th\, 2016. Submissions should be sent to blascodisputatio@gmail.com. Notification of acceptance should be expected by June 15\, 2016</p>\n<p>Scientific Committee:&nbsp\;Mar&iacute\;a &Aacute\;lvarez (KCL)\, Manuel P&eacute\;rez Otero (UB)\, Tobies Grimaltos (UV)\, Jordi Valor (UV)\, and Jes&uacute\;s Vega (UAM).</p>\n<p>Organizers:&nbsp\;Pablo Rychter (University of Valencia) and Josep E. Corb&iacute\; (University of Valencia)</p>\n<p>Sponsored by:&nbsp\;Spanish Research Council via Network on Epistemology and Society (FFI2014-55256-REDT)\; Internationalization and Cooperation University Office\, Faculty of Philosophy and Educational Sciences\, Department of Metaphysics and Theory of Knowledge\, and Philosophical Society in the Valencian Country.</p>\n<p>Contact:&nbsp\;blascodisputatio@gmail.com</p>
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