On 22 November\, we will hold a kickoff workshop for the Sense of Commitment project which was recently launched at the Department of Philosophy (University of Warwick) and which will run for the next 5 years with the support of a starting grant from the European Research Council. The aim of the project is to investigate the sense of commitment to joint action both theoretically and experimentally\, answering such questions as: Is there such a thing as a sense of commitment? If so\, is it a unified cognitive mechanism? How can it be modeled? How does it relate to explicit judgments about commitment? What situational factors modulate it? \;
\nAt the kickoff workshop\, we will introduce and discuss a theoretical framework which is our starting point for addressing these questions\, and report on preliminary results from recent and ongoing experiments. In addition\, we will welcome Wayne Christensen. Wayne is a new researcher joining Warwick as a member of the project team in November.
\n16:00 - 17:00 \;Project Introduction and Overview
\n17:00 - 17:45 Wayne Christensen 'Meshed control in skilled action' (co-authored with John Sutton &\; Kath Bicknell)
\n17:45 - 18:15 Commentaries by É\;lisabeth Pacherie (Institut Jean Nicod\, Paris) and Joshua Shepherd (Oxford)
\n18:15 - 19:00 Discussion
\n19:30 \;- Dinner
\nIf you would like to attend\, please register at J.Michael.2@warwick.ac.uk Everyone is welcome.