Sense of Agency and Moral Responsibility

May 29, 2017 - May 30, 2017
Institut Supérieur de Philosophie, Universite catholique de Louvain

Place Cardinal Mercier
Louvain-la-Neuve 1348
Belgium

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Sense of agency is the feeling that one has of being the author of one's actions. Recent empirical work on the sense of agency has produced some startling results. For instance, it appears to be that the sense of agency can be manipulated so that experimental participants feel a sense of agency over actions that they did not cause (manipulation of the so-called intentional binding phenomenon). Similarly, studies conducted since the 1980s have been used in arguments for the view that sense of agency appears not to play the causal or epistemic role that is imputed to it in many common-sense and philosophical accounts of action. What are the consequences of such studies for control and moral responsibility? One may give a negative account of the consequence, which would explain that folk views are mistaken and why this is, or one may give a positive account that explains the role of sense of agency in a way that implies partial revision of the folk view. Either way, it appears that the relationship of sense of agency to our normative practices is more complex than implied by folk views.

The plenary speakers for the conference will be Joshua Shepherd (Oxford), Simone Schütz-Bosbach (LMU Munich), Emilie Caspar (ULB Brussels), and Markus Schlosser (UCD Dublin).

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