Filosofia
- Symposium On Thomas Hofweber's Forthcoming Book, Ontology And The Ambitions Of Metaphysics
September 19 & 20, 2013,Humboldt University, Berlin In his new book, Thomas Hofweber undertakes an investigation of the nature of ontological inquiry: What questions does ontology pose? How might these questions be answered? Who can best answer...
- Panpsychism, Russellian Monism And The Nature Of The Physical
August 23rd-24th 2013, University of Oslo, Georg Morgenstiernes hus, room 652 Call for registration It seems that physics can only tell us about the relational or dispositional structure of the physical. Fundamental physical properties such...
- The Viability Of Metaphysics
16th July 2013 Keynote Speakers: Kit Fine; E.J. Lowe; Jose Zalabardo Senate Suite, Durham Castle University of Durham, Durham, UK. We invite submissions from graduate students/post-doctoral researchers for papers to be presented a workshop investigating...
- The Viability Of Metaphysics
Keynote Speakers: Kit Fine; Jonathon Lowe Workshop date: 16th July 2013 Senate Suite, Durham CastleUniversity of Durham, Durham, UK. We invite submissions from graduate students/post-doctoral researchers for papers to be presented a workshop investigating...
- Ma Programme In Philosophy At Aarhus University, Denmark
The MA Programme in Philosophy at Aarhus University offers advanced courses in the main areas of contemporary professional philosophy, taught by international staff with doctoral degrees from, and professional experience at, leading...
Filosofia
The Metaphysics of Free Will: Empowerment, agency and freedom
UMB, 21-22 February 2013
Does our freedom consist in us being causes of our own action? Would such freedom be threatened if we were bound by laws of nature? And do such laws constrain only our bodies but not our thoughts? The ancient problem of free will rests on a number of metaphysical assumptions concerning what are causes, laws, powers, properties and actions. This symposium will focus on the metaphysical issues around the problem of free will and explore the prospects for its metaphysical solution. The aim of the event is to (i) critically examine the ontological orthodoxies of this debate and (ii) explore the potential of the dispositions ontology as a better foundation for free will and agency. How should we see agents as properly empowered and would them being so require that they violate the laws of nature? Both determinism and indeterminism seem to threaten our freedom. A world in which everything must be either necessary or purely contingent seems to offer little prospect of free will. This international symposium will aim to explore whether a metaphysics of powers is able to offer an adequate account of our freedom that is neither deterministic nor indeterministic. Any papers that are willing to explore this terrain, taking a metaphysics of powers seriously, would be welcome.
This event is organised by the project Causation in Science (CauSci), funded by the Research Council of Norway. For more information about the project, see our website: http://www.umb.no/causci
Organiser: Rani Lill Anjum ([email protected])
Deadline for abstracts: 1 December
Meals and accommodation are funded. Some travel expenses can be covered.
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- Symposium On Thomas Hofweber's Forthcoming Book, Ontology And The Ambitions Of Metaphysics
September 19 & 20, 2013,Humboldt University, Berlin In his new book, Thomas Hofweber undertakes an investigation of the nature of ontological inquiry: What questions does ontology pose? How might these questions be answered? Who can best answer...
- Panpsychism, Russellian Monism And The Nature Of The Physical
August 23rd-24th 2013, University of Oslo, Georg Morgenstiernes hus, room 652 Call for registration It seems that physics can only tell us about the relational or dispositional structure of the physical. Fundamental physical properties such...
- The Viability Of Metaphysics
16th July 2013 Keynote Speakers: Kit Fine; E.J. Lowe; Jose Zalabardo Senate Suite, Durham Castle University of Durham, Durham, UK. We invite submissions from graduate students/post-doctoral researchers for papers to be presented a workshop investigating...
- The Viability Of Metaphysics
Keynote Speakers: Kit Fine; Jonathon Lowe Workshop date: 16th July 2013 Senate Suite, Durham CastleUniversity of Durham, Durham, UK. We invite submissions from graduate students/post-doctoral researchers for papers to be presented a workshop investigating...
- Ma Programme In Philosophy At Aarhus University, Denmark
The MA Programme in Philosophy at Aarhus University offers advanced courses in the main areas of contemporary professional philosophy, taught by international staff with doctoral degrees from, and professional experience at, leading...