Constrained choices: addiction, attention, and reasons-responsiveness

Federico Burdman (Universidad Alberto Hurtado)

We are pleased to announce a monthly online talk series on “Inferences & Capacities.” The series brings together work on inferential capacities, rationality, normativity, and cognition — across both human and non-human animals — with the aim of fostering discussion on the nature and limits of the cognitive sphere. 

Federico Burdman (Universidad Alberto Hurtado)

"Constrained choices: addiction, attention, and reasons-responsiveness"
May 18: 11am (Buenos Aires); 10am (New York); 4pm (Berlin)

Abstract: TBA

Each talk in our series will last 40 minutes followed by 40 minutes open Q&A. To register, please send an email to Alfredo Vernazzani at:

alfredo-vernazzani AT protonmail.com

The series is co-organized by

Mariela Aguilera (National University of Córdoba)

Matías Osta-Vélez (Universidad de la República), and

Alfredo Vernazzani (TU Dortmund; Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg; University of Pittsburgh).

All talks take place online and are open to interested participants.

To register, please email Alfredo Vernazzani at:

alfredo-vernazzani AT protonmail.com

Here is the 2026 lineup: 

April 27: Angelica Kaufmann (University of Milan): “Mind Blanking as Mental Imagery”

May 18: Federico Burdman (Universidad Alberto Hurtado) “Constrained choices: addiction, attention, and reasons-responsiveness”

June 22: Susanna Schellenberg (Rutgers): TBA

July 20: Cameron Buckner (University of Florida): TBA

September 7: Ulf Hlobil (Concordia University): TBA

October 19: Eva Schmidt (TU Dortmund): TBA

November 16: Hans-Johann Glock (University of Zürich): “Is ascribing inferences to brains or non-human animals a fallacy?"

December 14: Emma Borg (School of Advanced Studies, University of London): TBA


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