Workshop V: Determinism and Open Choices
Organised by University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Avenue du 1er-Mars 26, 2000 Neuchâtel, Suisse
PROGRAMME
WEDNESDAY 12/12/2018
Venue: Salle D65 – Bâtiment de la Faculté de droit et des sciences économiques
Avenue du 1er-Mars 26
9:00-10:15 Penelope Mackie (Nottingham): Ability, Relevant Possibilities, and the Fixity of the Past
10:30-11.15 Tillmann Vierkant (Edinburgh): Open and Meaningful Compatibilist Choices
11:30-12:15 Hannes Leitgeb (LMU Munich): On Merely Expressive Devices (such as
Metaphysical Modalities)
LUNCH BREAK
14:00-14:45 Sònia Roca (Stirling): Modal Fictionalism vis-à-vis the Epistemology of Modality
15:00-15:45 Ásgeir Berg Matthiasson (Stirling): The Inadequacy of Dispositional Accounts
of Meaning: A Reply to Warren
16:00-18:00 Board meeting
THURSDAY 13/12/2018
Venue: Salle D65 – Bâtiment de la Faculté de droit et des sciences économiques
Avenue du 1er-Mars 26
9:00-10:15 Christopher Lindsay (Glasgow): Freedom, Determinism and Common Sense
10:30-11.15 Giada Margiotto (Neuchâtel): Judgment and Volition in the Early Modern English Debate: King, Clarke, and Collins
11:30-12:15 Judith Würgler (Neuchâtel): What Can We Learn about Human Motivation from the Nature of Moral Facts
LUNCH BREAK
14:00-14:45 Corine Besson (Sussex) & Anandi Hattiangadi (Stockholm): Relativism about Future Contingents is Self-Refuting
15:00-15:45 Vincent Grandjean (Neuchâtel): A Non-Existent Future in a NonDeterministic World
16:00-16:45 Fabrice Correia (Geneva) & Sven Rosenkranz (Barcelona): Indeterminism and the Growing Block Theory of Time
17:00-18:00 Roundtable discussion
20:00 WORKSHOP DINNER at Brasserie Le Cardinal, Rue du Seyon 9
FRIDAY 14/12/2018 (ESRs’ Training Day)
Venue: Salle R.S.38 – Bâtiment de la Faculté des lettres des sciences humaines – Espace
Louis-Agassiz 1
9:30-12:30 Training session on vivas
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