Agential Capacities in Context

The cognitive sciences have made significant progress in our understanding of core cognitive capacities like motivation, self-regulation, and working memory. Many questions remain at the interface of these capacities: How are they related? Can one of them explain others? What is their relationship to human agency? And how is their operation altered by the agent’s practical context, such as structural conditions and social background? The two-day Agential Capacities Workshop will examine these questions. 

All speakers attend the event in-person, but it will be possible to follow the talks online.

There will be a pre-workshop, "Mind in the Age of AI", on the 19th. The pre-workshop is in-person only.

Full speaker line-up:

Denise de Ridder (Utrecht University)

Marina Milyavskaya (Carleton University)

Santiago Amaya (Rice University)

Veronika Job (University of Vienna)

David Barack (Carnegie Mellon University & University of Pittsburgh)

Angelica Kaufmann (University of Milan)

Anssi Bwalya (University of Turku)

Frederik Junker (University of Copenhagen)

J-P Bermúdez (University of Southampton)

Marina Trakas (Universidade de Lisboa)

Andrea Hiott (University of Heidelberg)

Mohsen Forghani (University of Warsaw)

Samuel Delorme (UC San Diego)

Philipp Thamer (King's College London)

For more information, please see the event website: https://sites.utu.fi/agencyproject/2026-agential-capacities-in-context-workshop/