SophiaEuropa (http://www.sophiaeuropa.net)

 2nd Workshop of the Interest Area “Causality and Motivation”

 Rome, 13-14 April 2007, Pontifical University S. Anselm

9,00—9,30      Welcome address

9,30—10,15    A. Ales Bello (Rome), Motivation in the Constitution of the surrounding World

10,15—11,00  Johanna Seibt (Aarhus), Normativity Naturalized

11,00—11,30 Coffee Break

11,30—12,15  Liliana Albertazzi (Trento), Immanent Realism: The Nature of Intentional Reference

12,15—13,00  David Weissman (New York), Motivation and Character 

15,00—15,45  W. Henkmann (Munich), A Phenomenological Analysis of Motivation

15,45—16,30  F. Nef (Paris), Emergence and Social Ontology

16,30—17,00  Coffee Break

17,00—17,45  Dale Jacquette (Penn State), Supervenience (on Steroids) and the Mind

17,45—18,30  Roberto Poli (Trento), Anomalies and Pathologies of Motivation

18,30—19,15 B. Pierce (Bristol), Action and Reaction 

9,00—9,45      Cyprian Love OSB (Glensdal Abbey), Christian Doctrine and Theories of Emergence

9,45—10,30    I. Tasdelen (Anadolu University), We are Determined to be Free

10,30—11,00  Coffee Break

11,00—11,45  Jean-Michel Roy (Lyon), Acting and Simulating

11,45—12,30  T. Gruene-Yanoff (Stockholm), Relating Concrete and Abstract Preferences 

14,30—15,15  J. P. Smith (New York), Motivations Without Motives 15,15—16,00  J. Ponzio (Bari), Motivation Without Cause: Levinas’ Concept of Forgiveness

16,00—16,45 Marek Maciejczak (Warsaw), The Efficacy of Prototypes 16,45—17,15  Coffee Break

17,15—18,00  Boguslawa Lewandowska (Warsaw), Object and Intentionality According to Roman Ingarden

18,00—18,45  A. Rueger, P. McGivern (Alberta), Non-Reductive Physicalism and the ‘Layered View’ of the World

18,45—19,30 B. Hennig (Saarbrucken), Final Causes and Practical Inference

For a description of the interest area on Causality and Motivation and a summary of the first workshop (Bolzano, 20-21 April 2006) see http://www.sophiaeuropa.net/sophiacm.  

Local chair: Stefano Visintin, St.D. (stfvsn@tin.it). A few rooms have been reserved within or nearby the Pontifical University S. Anselm. Please contact Dr. Visintin for details.

SophiaEuropa is a research project supported by the Metanexus Institute (www.metanexus.net)