27-29 Oct 2016
Gent, Belgium
Call for participants: Agency and Causation - Formal and Conceptual Issues (Third workshop in the Workshop Series on Logic, Reasoning, and Rationality) Location: Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature (KANTL), Koningstraat 18, Ghent, Belgium Date: Thursday 27th - Saturday 29th October 2016 Keynote speakers: Jan Broersen (University of Utrecht, Netherlands), Agnes Moors (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium), Elisabeth Pacherie (Institut Jean Nicod, France) Website: http://www.lrr.ugent.be<http://www.lrr.ugent.be/ac><http://www.lrr.ugent.be/ac><http://www.lrr.ugent.be/>/ac<http://www.lrr.ugent.be/ac> Registration deadline: Thursday 20th October Description of the workshop According to what is sometimes called "the standard philosophical concept of agency", agency equals intentional agency. This means that agency is caused (directly or indirectly) by an intention of the agent in question, which is in turn the result of the interplay between desires, other intentions, and beliefs. But how should we understand this type of causation? How can an intention, as a mental representation, cause the agent to behave, act, or choose in a certain way? How are such intentions shaped by (causal) presuppositions of the world in which we act, and the other agents with which we interact? Recent work on agency and causality is starting to address these and other questions. The aim of this workshop is to further stimulate the synergy between, on the one hand, ongoing work that concerns the logic and philosophy of human (intentional) agency, and on the other, conceptual and formal work on causation and causal reasoning. This workshop is part of the series "Logic, Reasoning and Rationality" (LRR) and is funded by the Research Foundation of Flanders (FWO) through the research network on "Logical and Methodological Analysis of Scientific Reasoning Processes (LMASRP). See http://www.lrr.ugent.be/ for more information on the workshop series and network. Participation If you want to participate, please register online at http://www.lrr.ugent.be/ac/registration. For all regular participants, the registration fee is 50EUR (conference dinner included). It has to be paid in cash at the registration desk on 27/10. Researchers who lack financial support may contact us at frederik.vandeputte@ugent.be<mailto:frederik.vandeputte@ugent.be> for a reduction. Chairs: Frederik Van De Putte (Ghent University) & Bert Leuridan (University of Antwerp) Program Committee: Mathieu Beirlaen, Inge De Bal, Leen De Vreese, Raoul Gervais, Joke Meheus, Dingmar van Eck -- [LOGIC] mailing list http://www.dvmlg.de/mailingliste.html Archive: http://www.illc.uva.nl/LogicList/ provided by a collaboration of the DVMLG, the Maths Departments in Bonn and Hamburg, and the ILLC at the Universiteit van Amsterdam