Mind, Reason and Action
Perspectives on Mental Causation
June 22 - 23, 2001
Aula Seminari, Rettorato Università del Piemonte Orientale ‘A. Avogadro’
Via Duomo 6, 13100 Vercelli (ITALY)
June 22, 2001
09.00
Diego Marconi (UPO, Vercelli)
Welcome address
09.15
Martine Nida-Rümelin (Université de Fribourg)
Is our concept of transtemporal personal identity a causal concept?
General discussion
- break
11.00
Jennifer Hornsby (Birbeck College, Oxford)
Mental causation and selves: are there TWO problems about human freedom?
Discussant: Michele Di Francesco (UPO, Vercelli)
General discussion
14.30
Jaegwon Kim (Brown University, New York)
The basic structure of the exclusion argument
Discussant: Alberto Voltolini (UPO, Vercelli)
General discussion
16.00
Simone Gozzano (Università dell’Aquila)
Living with second order properties
Discussant: Nicola Simonetti (UPO, Vercelli)
General discussion
17.30 break
June 22, 2001
17.45
Jlenia Quartarone (Università di Roma 3, Roma)
The role of sustaining causation in the explanation of intentional action
Discussant: Clotilde Calabi (Università di Milano)
General discussion
June 23, 2001
9.15
Max Kistler (Centre Jean Nicod, Paris)
Is functional reduction a kind of logical reduction?
Discussant: Alfredo Paternoster (UPO, Vercelli)
General discussion
- break
11.00
Mauro Dorato (Università di Roma 3, Roma)
Laws of nature, causation and mental causation
Discussant: Margherita Benzi (Università di Genova)
General discussion
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