Actions, Reasons, and Desires: Gary Watson on Freedom and Agency June 21, 2009

The Department of Philosophy at CEU invites you to a conference on the philosophy of Gary Watson entitled

Actions, Reasons, and Desires: Gary Watson on Freedom and Agency

All talks will be held in the Philosophy Seminar Room (CEU Zrinyi u. 14, r. 412)

Program:

June 22

10:00 Gary Watson (University of Southern California, Los Angeles), “The Trouble with Psychopats”

11:30 Ferenc Huoranszki (Central European University), “Weakness and Compulsion: The Essential Difference”

Lunch break

15:00 Annemarie Kalis (Utrecht University), “Evaluation and Motivation: The Case of Choosing the Bad”

19:30 Conference Dinner

June 23

10:00 Olli Koistinen (University of Turku), “Watson on Freedom and Real Agency”

11:30 Zoltán Wágner(Central European University), “The Will, Counter-Normative Agency and Freedom”

Lunch break

15:00 András Szigeti (Central European University), “Moral Responsibility and Practical Skepticism”

16:30 Gary Watson: Concluding remarks

Conference information provided by konferenciakalauz.hu

Official Website: http://web.ceu.hu/phil/conf.htm#2009.watson