Agency and Rationality

Conference “Agency and Rationality”

Location: Center for Logic, Epistemology and History of Science (CLE), University of Campinas (SP-Brazil)

Dates: June 14-16, 2018

During the conference, we aim to explore the nature of rational agency, both practical and epistemic. Typically, exercises of our rational agency are guided or governed by certain practical and epistemic norms. However, it is far from clear what exactly these norms are, nor how we are to understand the way in which they guide us in acting and believing. Topics/questions we hope to discuss include: How are we to understand the normativity of practical and epistemic norms? Can practical and/or epistemic norms be derived from the nature of agency? Can there be a unified account of practical and epistemic normativity? Does the nature of agency constrain our understanding of practical and epistemic norms? How do norms guide exercises of rational agency? Must all genuine norms be understood in terms of reasons?

Speakers:

Hagit Benbaji (Ben Gurion University)

Matthew Boyle (University of Chicago)

Luca Ferrero (University of California Riverside)

Matthias Haase (University of Chicago)

David Horst (University of Campinas)

David Hunter (Ryerson University Toronto)

Eric Marcus (Auburn University)

Michael Nelson (University of California Riverside)

Sarah Paul (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Karl Schafer (University of California Irvine)

Sergio Tenenbaum (University of Toronto)

Michael Thompson (University of Pittsburgh)

The conference is organized by Sergio Tenenbaum, Marco Ruffino, and David Horst. Contact: David Horst ([email protected]).