Programme
November 14 Special pre-symposium session (meeting room, Department of Metaphysics)
18.00 : Michael McKenna will present his recent book Conversation and Responsibility
November 15 Symposium (all sessions will take place at the “Sala de Graus”)
9.30 Welcome and opening words
9.45 Neil Levy (University of Oxford): “Consciousness and moral responsibility”
Commentator: Josep L. Prades (Universitat de Girona)
11.45 Michael McKenna (University of Arizona): “Reasons-responsiveness, agents and mechanisms”
Commentators: Josep Corbí and Edgar Maraguat (Universitat de València)
13.45 Lunch break
15.30 Helen Steward (University of Leeds): “Helping it”
Commentator: Sergi Rosell (Universitat de València)
17.30 Carlos Moya (Universitat de València): “Doing one’s best and the Principle of Alternative Possibilities”
Commentator: Carlos Patarroyo (Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá)
November 16
9.45 George Sher (Rice University): “Responsibility, conversation and communication”
Commentators: Carmen Santander and Claudia Compte (Universitat de València)
11.45 Constantine Sandis (Oxford Brookes University) “’Real reasons’ and confabulations”
Commentator: Tobies Grimaltos (Universitat de València)
13.45 Lunch break
15.30 Andrei Buckareff (Marist College): “Humean compatibilists cannot be eternalists”
Commentator: Pablo Rychter (Universitat de València)
17.30 Maria Alvarez (King’s College London): “Agency and choice”
Commentator: Santiago Amaya (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)