The Second Annual ULaval Everything Agency Conference 2025

!!!NEWS!!! The program is here:

24 April, LAU-3452 (Pavillon Laurentienne), ULaval

8:30-9:00 Welcome, coffee

9:00 – 10:30 Michael Bratman (Stanford), "Time, Sociality, Institutions: The Core Capacity Conjecture"

Chair: Catherine Rioux (Université Laval)

10:30 – 10:45 Coffee pause

10:45 – 11:30 Felix Lambrecht (Toronto), “Diachronic Group Agency”

Chair: Michael Kremer (Chicago)

11:30 – 12:15 Vasiliki Xiromeriti (Lyon), “Practical reasoning and joint action: How collective deliberation structures cooperation”

Chair: Olivia Sultanescu (Concordia)

12:15 – 13:30 Lunch (at Cafétéria du Palasis-Prince, on campus, nearby building)

13:30 – 15:30 Jane Friedman (NYU)

Chair: Arturs Logins, (Université Laval)

15:00 – 15:15 Coffee pause

15:15 – 16:00 Daniel Cserhalmi Friedman (Stanford), “Two Kinds of Error in Shared Inquiry”

Chair: Samuel Carlsson Tjernström (McGill)

16:00 – 16:45 Jingzhi Chen (McGill), “Being Good Friends Without Being Bad Believers”

Chair: Bruno Guindon (Simon Fraser University)

Cocktail, the Félix-Antoine Savard Pavillon, FAS 140Z

25 April, LAU-3452 (Pavillon Laurentienne), ULaval

8:30-9:00 Welcome, coffee

9:00 – 10:30 Agnes Callard (Chicago), "The Wrong Conversation"

Chair: Nathan Howard (Toronto)

10:30 – 10:45 Coffee pause

10:45 – 11:30 Sherry Kao (Georgetown), “The Normativity of Aspiration and Hope”

Chair: Vincent Rochelle (ULaval)

11:30 – 12:15 Anne Iavarone-Turcotte (McGill), “Adaptive Choices vs Adaptive Preferences: A Proposed Shift”

Chair: Erika Olivaux Marmignon (ULaval)

12:15 – 13:30 Lunch (at Cafétéria du Palasis-Prince, on campus, nearby building)

 13:30 – 15:30 Alex Worsnip (UNC-Chapel Hill), "Skepticism about "Commitment" (or: The Tortoise's Revenge)"

Chair: Patrick Turmel (Université Laval)

15:00 – 15:15 Coffee pause

15:15 – 16:00 Martin Niederl (Chicago), “Epistemic Defeaters, Normative Reasons, and Animal Agency”

Chair: TBA

16:00 – 16:45 Andrea Daventry (California State University, San Bernardino), “An Agential Account of Gaslighting”

Chair: Flavie Chevalier (McGill)

The Second Annual ULaval Everything Agency Conference 2025

Venue: Université Laval, Québec City, Canada.

Dates: April 24-25, 2025

Keynote Speakers: Michael Bratman (Stanford University), Agnes Callard (University of Chicago), Jane Friedman (New York University), Alex Worsnip (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).

The second Annual ULaval Everything Agency Conference will be held at Laval University, Québec City, Canada. The conference aims to bring together researchers working on the theoretical aspects of agency: philosophy of action, philosophy of emotions, epistemology, normative ethics, 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.

We invite submissions of abstracts on the general theme of the conference. Among possible topics are intentional action, coherence constraints 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 and 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.

Submitted abstracts should be 750 words long and be prepared for blind review. Abstracts have to be submitted electronically to the following email address: [email protected]. The deadline for the submission is October 1, 2024.

Speakers of accepted papers will be invited to the conference reception and will have two nights of accommodation provided on the campus of ULaval University. Further help for travel expenses might be available, particularly for selected speakers from underrepresented groups.

We would like to encourage, in particular, submissions from members of underrepresented groups.

Everyone is welcome to the conference; attendance is free, but registration is required. Please register by email at [email protected]. The deadline for registration is April 18, 2025.

Organizers: Arturs Logins (ULaval) ([email protected]), Catherine Rioux (ULaval) ([email protected]), and Nathan Howard (UToronto) ([email protected]).

Websites:  https://philevents.org/event/show/125078

https://www.fp.ulaval.ca/ulaval-everything-agency-conference