VERCELLI, June 22-23
Workshop
Mind, reason and action. Perspectives on mental causation

Aula Seminari, Rettorato Università del Piemonte Orientale ‘A. Avogadro’
Via Duomo 6, 13100 Vercelli



Speakers:  Mauro Dorato (Università di Roma 3, Roma), Simone Gozzano (Università dell'Aquila, L'Aquila), Jennifer Hornsby (Birkbeck College, Oxford, UK), Jaegwon Kim (Brown University, New York, USA), Max Kistler (Centre Jean Nicod, Paris, Francia), Martine Nida-Ruemelin (Université de Fribourg, Svizzera), Ylenia Quartarone (Università di Roma 3, Roma)

Discussants: Margherita Benzi, Clotilde Calabi, Michele Di Francesco, Nicola Simonetti, Alfredo Paternoster, Alberto Voltolini.

 

Provisional Program
June 22, morning June 22, afternoon
9.15 Martine Nida-Rümelin (Université de Fribourg) "Is our concept of transtemporal personal identity a causal concept?"

general discussion
 
10.45 break
 
11.00 Jennifer Hornsby (Birkbeck College, London) "Mental causation and selves: are there TWO problems about human freedom?"

discussant: Michele Di Francesco (UPO Vercelli)

general discussion

 14.30 Jaegwon Kim (Brown University, New York): tba

discussant: Alberto Voltolini (UPO Vercelli)

general discussion
 
 

16.00  Simone Gozzano (Università dell'Aquila) "Living with second order properties"

discussant: Nicola Simonetti (UPO Vercelli)

general discussion

17.30 break

17.45  Ylenia Quartarone (Università di Roma 3, Roma) "The Role of Sustaining Causation in the Explanation of Intentional Action".

discussant: Clotilde Calabi (Università di Milano)

general discussion
June 23, morning  
9.15 Max Kistler (Université Paris X and Centre Jean Nicod, Paris) "Causal responsible mental facts "

discussant: Alfredo Paternoster (UPO Vercelli)

general discussion

10.45 break

11.00 Mauro Dorato (Università di Roma 3, Roma) "Laws of Nature, Causation and Mental Causation"

discussant: Margherita Benzi (Università di Genova)

general discussion