[PHILOS-L] Reminder: CFR: Agential Capacities in Context (HYBRID)

[Polaris Koi]

Dear colleagues,

 

This is a reminder to register to the Agential Capacities in Context workshop, happening in Turku, Finland and online on August 20-21, 2026.

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.

We have a stellar line-up spanning philosophy, psychology, and beyond, including:

Keynotes:
Santiago Amaya (Rice University): Beyond individualism
Denise de Ridder (Utrecht University): Turning on the we-mode: Collective agency boosts the capacity to act together
Veronika Job (University of Vienna): The intrinsic value of effort
Marina Milyavskaya (Carleton University): Agency in goal pursuit: How motivation shapes self-regulation

And that’s not all! We also have:
Marina Trakas (Universidade de Lisboa) Mnemonic agency?
Frederik Junker (University of Copenhagen) Beyond deliberation: How memory shapes intentions
David Barack (Carnegie Mellon University & University of Pittsburgh) Zetetic agency
Anssi Bwalya (University of Turku) Experiencing agency in the context of ADHD
Juan Pablo Bermúdez (University of Southampton) The effects of poverty on planning agency
Samuel Delorme (UC San Diego) Learning can make it harder to do the right thing
Mohsen Forghani (University of Warsaw) Agent-relative prerogatives and deference to power
Philipp Thamer (King’s College London) Taking the back seat: Public preferences for second-order agency and human oversight in automated taxis
Angelica Kaufmann (University of Milan) The practice of personhood: A social-epistemic account of animal personhood
Andrea Hiott (University of Heidelberg) Constitutive caring: Towards a care-first account of agential capacities

Registration, for either in-person or online attendance, is free of charge thanks to generous funding from the Kone foundation. For more information, please see:

https://sites.utu.fi/agencyproject/2026-agential-capacities-in-context-workshop/

And, that’s not all! We also have a pre-workshop on August 19^th, called ‘Mind in the age of AI’, in person only. More information can be found on the above website.

I hope to see many of you in Turku and online!

Best wishes,

Polaris

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Dr. Polaris Koi
he/him, they/them
Personal webpage – – E-mail  – –  Bluesky
Assistant Professor of Practical Philosophy, University of Turku
PI, Agency research group

I work at strange hours – please respond to my e-mails at your leisure.

Some new papers: Attention and self-control,  Value-deflationist self-control, Willpower as a metaphor, Nudge the rich!

 

 

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