7th New England Workshop on Metaphysics: Consciousness and Agency

Program

Friday 25 October

9:30-11:00 Jack Spencer (MIT): “Knowledge and Normal Luminosity”
                  Comments: Greg Carroll (Harvard)

11:15-12:45 Tamar Schapiro (MIT): “Philosophy of Agency from the Participant Standpoint”
                  Comments: Nicole An (Yale)

2:00-3:30 Gwen Bradford (University of Toronto): “The Limits of Consciousness and Moral Status”
                  Comments: Patrick McKee (Brown)

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Saturday 26 October

9:30-11:00 Laurie Paul (Yale): “Primitive Persistence”
                  Comments: Asa Zabarsky (Harvard)

11:15-12:45 Declan Smithies (The Ohio State University): “A Hedonic Theory of Desire”
                  Comments: Eliška Wichterlová

2:00-3:30 Adam Pautz (Brown University): “Consciousness and Easy Reference to Qualities: A Problem for Physicalists”
                  Comments: Selina Guter (MIT)

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Sunday 27 October

9:30-11:00 Matt Duncan (Rhode Island College) & Sharon Casu (University of Fribourg): “Groups are Aesthetically and Morally Alienated”
                  Comments: Chaeyoung Paek (UMass Amherst)

11:15-12:45 Ned Markosian (UMass Amherst): “Causation, Agent Causation, and Free Will”
                  Comments: Michele Impagnatiello (MIT)

Registration is free but required.

Reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities with 72 hours notice.