Reasoning and Agency

Wokshop schedule: 

Reasoning and Agency

Tuesday 3rd Augist

Virtually and Drachlis Hall, Gilman building, Room 496

David Owens (KCL): “Reason, Agency, and Obligation”

08:00-09:15 (NY) :: 13:00-14:15 (LDN) :: 15:00-16:15 (TLV)

Jennifer Morton (North Carolina-Chapel Hill): “Resisting Pessimism Traps: The Limits of Epistemic Resilience”

09:30-10:45 (NY) :: 14:30-15:45 (LDN) :: 16:30-17:45 (TLV)         

Matthew Soteriou (KCL): “Reasoning in Time”

11:15-12:30 (NY) :: 16:15-17:30 (LDN) :: 18:15-19:30 (TLV)

Antonia Peacocke (Stanford): “Inference and Responsibility in Complex Mental Action”

12:45-14:00 (NY) :: 17:45-19:00 (LDN) :: 19:45-21:00 (TLV)

Wednesday 4th August

Virtually and Drachlis Hall, Gilman building, Room 496

Lucy Campbell (Warwick) & Alexander Greenberg (UCL): “Mental Agency: A Red Herring?”

08:00-09:15 (NY) :: 13:00-14:15 (LDN) :: 15:00-16:15 (TLV)

Yair Levy (Tel Aviv): “What is Reasoning?”

09:30-10:45 (NY) :: 14:30-15:45 (LDN) :: 16:30-17:45 (TLV)         

Michael Smith (Princeton): “Three Conceptions of Agency”

11:15-12:30 (NY) :: 16:15-17:30 (LDN) :: 18:15-19:30 (TLV)

Carlotta Pavese (Cornell): “The Place for Knowledge in a Theory of Action”

12:45-14:00 (NY) :: 17:45-19:00 (LDN) :: 19:45-21:00 (TLV)

Thursday 5th August

Virtually and Drachlis Hall, Gilman building, Room 496

David Jenkins (Independent): “Reasoning and its Limits”

08:00-09:15 (NY) :: 13:00-14:15 (LDN) :: 15:00-16:15 (TLV)

Oded Na’aman (Hebrew University): “Narratives and Rational Heart Rates”

09:30-10:45 (NY) :: 14:30-15:45 (LDN) :: 16:30-17:45 (TLV)         

Tamar Schapiro (MIT): “What Makes Weak-Willed Action Weak?”

11:15-12:30 (NY) :: 16:15-17:30 (LDN) :: 18:15-19:30 (TLV)

Jonathan Way (Southampton): “Doxastic Enkratic Reasoning”

12:45-14:00 (NY) :: 17:45-19:00 (LDN) :: 19:45-21:00 (TLV)

Registration is required. To register, or for any questions, please contact the workshop organizer, Yair Levy: [email protected].

For further information, including abstracts for the talks, please visit: https://en-humanities.tau.ac.il/reasoning-agency