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[PHILOS-L] CONF : Free Will and Causation – Collège de France (Paris)

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Jean-Baptiste Guillon

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We are delighted to announce the international conference “Free Will and
Causation”, organized by the Chaire de Métaphysique et Philosophie de la
Connaissance (Collège de France) of Prof. Claudine TIERCELIN.

22 - 23 september 2016
Collège de France, Room 2
11, place Marcelin Berthelot, 75005 Paris

Thursday, September 22,

09:30 Claudine TIERCELIN, Collège de France:
Opening
09:40 Richard HOLTON, University of Cambridge:
Cause and Agency
10:40 Break
11:00 Kadri VIHVELIN, University of Southern California:
How the Laws Constrain: Ability, Possibility, and Free Will
12:00 Ghislain LE GOUSSE, Université de Nantes:
Three Arguments Against Conditionalism

14:30 Carolina SARTORIO, University of Arizona:
Actual Causes and Free Will
15:30 Patrick TODD, University of Edinburgh:
Libertarianism and Compatibilism: Different Sides of the Same Overly
Optimistic Coin
16:30 Break
16:50 Helen BEEBEE, University of Manchester:
Sourcehood, Causal History and Alternative Possibilities

Friday, September 23,

09:30 Timothy O’CONNOR, Indiana University:
Reasons and Causes
10:30 Break
10:50 Jean-Baptiste GUILLON, Collège de France:
The Epistemology of Agent-Causation
11:50 Jean-Pascal ANFRAY, ENS Paris:
Suárez on the Notion of a Free Cause

14:30 Cyrille MICHON, Université de Nantes:
Responsibility for Consequences and Alternative Possibilities
15:30 Joana RIGATO, Champalimaud Research Center:
Agent-Causation and Supervenience: How You Can Have One Without Giving Up
the Other ?
16:30 Break
16:50 Derk PEREBOOM, Cornell University:
Event-Causation, Luck, and the Disappearing Agent Objection

No registration, within the limits of the available places

More information at
http://www.college-de-france.fr/site/claudine-tiercelin/p1677385799148176_content.htm

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