- “Intentionality, Deliberation and Autonomy – The Action-Theoretic Basis of Practical Philosophy”
March 11-13, 2005 – Certosa di Pontignano – Siena – Italy
PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT
THE CONFERENCE: March 11-13, 2005 an international conference "Intentionality, Deliberation and Autonomy – The Action-Theoretic Basis of Practical Philosophy" will be held at the University of Siena (Italy) (or more precisely: in the university's conference centre Certosa di Pontignano in the countryside of Siena).
AIM OF THE CONFERENCE: A central philosophical presupposition leading to this conference is that philosophy of action at least in part should provide important underpinnings for the rest of practical philosophy. It should e.g. explain what desires and explanatory reasons consist in and what their content is, which then would be an important basis for normative theories of practical reason and practical rationality. Or it should explicate what intentionality and attributability consist in for providing the basis for moral, legal etc. theories of responsibility. Or it should find out the basis of autonomy and contribute to normative theories of autonomy; etc. In the last decades action theory sometimes has lost sight of this practical orientation. The aim of the conference is to strengthen the relation to practical philosophy in philosophy of action and to support and promote those approaches, developments and theories that might be able to provide important foundations for practical philosophy.
SPEAKERS AND PAPERS: Papers will be presented by (papers' titles are only provisional):
Robert Audi (University of Notre Dame, USA): The Grounds and Structure of Reasons.
Michael Bratman (Stanford University, USA): Anchors for Deliberation.
Eddy Carli (Università di Padova, Italy): Do Practical Syllogisms Systemize Practical Reasoning?
Carl Ginet (Cornell University, USA): An Action Can Be Both Uncaused and Up to the Agent.
Geert Keil (Humboldt Universität Berlin, Germany): What Do Deviant Causal Chains Deviate From?
Christoph Lumer (Università di Siena, Italy): Practical Reasons Empirically.
Hugh McCann (Texas A&M University, USA): The Will and the Good.
Alfred Mele (Florida State University, USA): Free Will: Action Theory Meets Neuroscience.
Carlos Moya (Universidad de Valencia, Spain): Belief and Moral Responsibility.
Sandro Nannini (Università di Siena, Italy): Action Theory and Cognitive Turn.
Michael Quante (Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany): Autonomy for real people.
Neil Roughley (Universität Konstanz, Germany): Unwrapping the Package Deal: Why Intention's Specificity is no Foundation for Double Effect.
Gottfried Seebass (Universität Konstanz, Germany): Forming the Will Freely.
Michael Smith (University of Princeton, USA): Diachronic Self-Control.
Thomas Spitzley (Universität Duisburg, Germany): Autonomy and Weakness of the Will.
Ralf Stoecker (Universität Bielefeld, Germany): Responsibility and Action – a second look at ascriptivism.
ORGANIZATION AND SPONSORING: The conference is organized by Christoph Lumer (e-mail: lumer@unisi.it) and Sandro Nannini (e-mail: nanninis@unisi.it) (both University of Siena). Sponsoring by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung is gratefully acknowledged.
PARTICIPATION: The conference shall be more or less open for "passive" participants, available space permitting. The cost of three days accommodation and full board in the Certosa di Pontignano is about 160-190 Euros (single person) and about 280 Euros (two persons in double room), respectively; attendance itself will be without charge. Those interested in participation may contact Mrs. Fancesca Ghiselli (e-mail: ghiselli@unisi.it).
FURTHER INFORMATION: Further information about the conference is available on the conference's website: http://www.unisi.it/eventi/practical_philosophy
