Agents and Causes
Interdisciplinary Aspects in Mind, Language and Culture
Date: March 21 - 23, 2012
Convenors: Albert Newen (Bochum), Anne Springer (Potsdam), Christopher Topp (ZiF) and Markus Werning (Bochum)
The central question of the workshop is what it means for an agent to be the cause of an action: What is the metaphysics of the agent role in causation? How is this role mentally represented? What are the linguistic structures that express the agent role and how do they vary across languages? What can go wrong in representing the agent role, e.g., in psychiatric disorders? These questions will be discussed by scientists from different disciplines, ranging from Philosophy, to Psychology, Linguistics and Anthropology.
Preliminary Program
21st March 2012
9:15 Introduction (Markus Werning, Albert Newen and Christopher Topp)
Block: Agency & Free Will
9:30 Robert Kane (U Texas)
Agency and Free Will: New Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives on an Ancient Problem.
10:40 Albert Newen (U Bochum
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11:50 Coffee Break
12:10 Markus Werning (U Bochum)
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13:20 Lunch
Block: Sense of Agency
14.30 Elisabeth Pacherié (CNRS Paris)
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15.40 Coffee Break
16:00 Martin Voss (Humboldt U Berlin)
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17:10 Nicole David (U Hamburg)
Neuroimaging and neuropsychological perspectives on the sense of agency
18.30 Dinner at ZiF
22nd March 2012
9.30 James Moore (U Cambridge)
Was that me? Exploring the 'sense of agency' in health and disease
10.40 Leon De Bruin (U Bochum)
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11.50 Coffee Break
12:10 4 Spot Lights Talks à 20 min (incl. discussion)
13.30 Lunch Break
Block: Agency & Agentivity in Language
14.40 Robert Van Valin (U Düsseldorf)
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15.50 Artemis Alexiadou (U Stuttgart)
Agents and causers in derived nominals: Why are nouns not like verbs?
17.00 Posters & Coffee
18.30 Dinner at Restaurant (direct payer)
23rd March 2012
Block: Agency: The Cross-Cultural Perspective
9.30 Thomas Widlock (MPI Nijmegen)
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10.40 Coffee
11:00 Paulo Sousa (Queen's U Belfast)
Folk Conceptions of Action and Intentional Action
11:50 Roundup and Farewell
(Markus Werning, Albert Newen and Christopher Topp)
12:30 Lunch
Location:
Center for Interdisciplinary Research
Bielefeld University
Wellenberg 1
33615 Bielefeld
Germany
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