Department of Philosophy
Werkmeister Conference on Free Will & Science
(Sponsored by the William H. and Lucyle T. Werkmeister Endowment Fund)
January 18-20, 2008
Program
Friday, January 18th
Opening Remarks and Welcome by Al Mele:
3:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Afternoon Session:
4:00 p.m. - 5:40 p.m.
Speaker: Nomy Arpaly (Brown University), "Wherever There's a Will" (Commentator: Tim Schroeder, Ohio State University; Chair: Kirk Ludwig, University of Florida)
Saturday, January 19th
Morning Session:
9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Speaker: Roy Baumeister (Florida State University), "Decision Making, Self-control, and Ego Depletion: Free will as the expensive form of action control" (Commentator: John Baer, Rider University; Chair: Shaun Gallagher, University of Central Florida)
Speaker: Helen Beebee (University of Birmingham), "Is the Phenomenology of Free Will Relevant to the Metaphysics?" (Commentator: Manuel Vargas, University of San Francisco; Chair: Rico Vitz, University of North Florida)
Afternoon Session:
2:20 p.m. - 5:50 p.m.
Speaker: Richard Holton (MIT), "Determinism, Self-Efficacy, and the Phenomenology of Free Will" (Commentator: Elizabeth Harman, Princeton University; Chair: Susan Peppers-Bates, Stetson University)
Speaker: Bertram Malle (University of Oregon), "Is Folk Psychology Doomed? Challenges to the Concept of Intentional Agency" (Commentator: Thomas Nadelhoffer, Dickinson College; Chair: Jennifer Fisher, University of North Florida)
Sunday, January 20th
Morning Session:
9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Speaker: Shaun Nichols (University of Arizona), "Intuitions about Agency" (Commentator: Eddy Nahmias, Georgia State University; Chair: Marina Oshana, University of Florida)
Speaker: Derk Pereboom (Cornell University), "A Compatibilist Account of the Beliefs Required for Deliberation" (Commentator: Sarah McGrath, Princeton University; Chair: David Copp, University of Florida)
Contact Information:
For additional information, please contact Chris Zarpentine (czarpent@fsu.edu or 850-645-7374). For a map with walking directions from the hotel to the site of the conference, please click here.