13-14 April 2007
SophiaEuropa (http://www.sophiaeuropa.net)
2nd Workshop of the Interest Area "Causality and Motivation"
Rome, 13-14 April 2007, Pontifical University S. Anselm
Call for Papers
This second "Causality and Motivation" workshop will be focussed on
motivation, i.e. on psychological and social types of causation.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to
(*) Forms and types of motivation (taking decisions, building projects,
planning, etc.)
(*) The concepts of person and agent
(*) Will, its layers and its pathologies
(*) Intentionality and reference
(*) Interaction between psychological and social items
(*) Values
(*) Biological, psychological and social forms of anticipation
("future-driven" behavior as opposed to "past-driven" behavior)
(*) Levels of reality, their interconnections and their internal
organization
(*) Emergence, supervenience, complexity
(*) Forms of causality (forward, upward, downward, backward)
Speakers include Angela Ales Bello, Johanna Seibt, Liliana Albertazzi, and
Roberto Poli.
For a description of the interest area on Causality and Motivation and a
summary of the first workshop (Bolzano, 20-21 April 2006) see
http://www.sophiaeuropa.net/sophiacm.
If you are interested in presenting a paper to the workshop, send please a
two-page abstract to Roberto Poli (roberto.poli@soc.unitn.it) before
January 31, 2007.
Local chair: Stefano Visintin, St.D. (stfvsn@tin.it). A few rooms have
been reserved within or nearby the Pontifical University S. Anselm. Please
contact Dr. Visintin for details.
Important Dates:
Abstracts due: 31 January 2007
Notification of acceptance: 28 February 2007
Conference: 13-14 April 2007
SophiaEuropa is a research project supported by the Metanexus Institute
(www.metanexus.net)