Here are the last of the abstracts for the conference’s concurrent sessions. Abstracts of the plenary sessions will follow next week.
Archive for the ‘Action Theory’ Category
Abstracts of Papers, Part 3
Posted in Action Theory, Conferences, Moral Psychology, Philosophy of Mind on September 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Freewill in the NYT
Posted in Action Theory, Moral Psychology on June 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
… featuring FSU’s Al Mele, here.
(HT: The Garden of Forking Paths)
The less they know, the less they know it?
Posted in Action Theory, Moral Psychology, Teaching Philosophy on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Via In Socrates’ Wake, I find this psychological gem:
[C]ognitive science offers some fairly sobering observations about our ability to judge ourselves and others…
[T]wo Cornell psychologists began with the following assumptions.
1. Incompetent individuals tend to overestimate their own level of skill.
2. Incompetent individuals fail to recognize genuine skill in others.
3. Incompetent individuals fail to recognize the [...]
Schroeder on Bloggingheads
Posted in Action Theory, Early Modern Philosophy, Ethics, Moral Psychology on November 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Mark Schroeder (USC) discusses his book Slaves of the Passions.
Does moral responsibility skepticism entail moral realism?
Posted in Action Theory, Ethics, General Interest on October 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In order to be a skeptic about moral responsibility, does one also have to be a moral realist? Tamler Sommers offers an interesting argument at The Garden of Forking Paths.
An Interesting Discussion of Freewill…
Posted in Action Theory on May 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
At the ‘Garden of Forking Paths’ the relationship between moral responsibility and mental illness is discussed.
The Science of Freewill
Posted in Action Theory on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here is a story on Talk of the Nation, on NPR which discusses studies on the science of decision making using fMRI’s.
Michael McKenna Interview
Posted in Action Theory, General Interest, Interviews on November 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Interview with Michael McKenna (FSU) right here!
Addictions and Free Acts
Posted in Action Theory, Ethics, General Interest, Interviews, Moral Psychology on September 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Here is an interview with Nora Volkow on NPR’s Fresh Air. Volkow is director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and she has done very interesting work on drug abuse.
Manuel Vargas: The Interview
Posted in Action Theory, Interviews, Latin American Philosophy on September 4, 2007 | 4 Comments »
The FSPB welcomes Manuel Vargas (U. San Francisco) to our blog for a discussion of issues in action theory and issues in Latin American philosophy.
FSPB: Hi, Manuel, thank you for joining us.
MV: My pleasure—thanks for having me!
FSPB: Congratulations on the publication of Four Views on Free Will. What is the general strategy [...]
Coming Soon …
Posted in Action Theory, Interviews, Latin American Philosophy, News & Notes on August 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
… an interview with Manuel Vargas on issues in action theory and in Latin American philosophy — a ‘must read’.
Will and Value
Posted in Action Theory, Ethics, Moral Psychology, News & Notes on April 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
… a conference in honor of Ramon M. Lemos at the University of Miami, Friday, April 27th. Details are available here.
- Rico Vitz
Two Questions about Moral Perfection
Posted in Action Theory, Ethics, Moral Psychology on April 19, 2007 | 11 Comments »
Prepping for class, I came across this interesting passage in Reid’s Essays on the Active Powers of the Human Mind (IV.4):
God’s moral perfection doesn’t consist in his having no power to act badly. [...] God’s moral perfection consists in this: having an irresistible power to do everything, he exercises it only in doing what is [...]
Freedom and Neurobiology
Posted in Action Theory, Moral Psychology, Philosophy of Mind on March 7, 2007 | 2 Comments »
… a review and discussion of Searle’s new book is available at the GFP, as is an interesting discussion of Searle’s claim that “we cannot escape the presupposition of freewill.”
- Rico Vitz
Fischer is Coming to the FSPB!
Posted in Action Theory, Ethics, Moral Psychology, News & Notes on January 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
We are very pleased to announce that early next week, we’ll have an interview with John Martin Fischer here at the FSPB. Check it out.
- Rico Vitz
Congratulations to FSU’s Al Mele!
Posted in Action Theory, News & Notes, Philosophy of Science on January 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Congratulations to Al Mele for winning an NEH Fellowship for work on his upcoming project, Intentions in Action: Action Theory and Action Science! More details are available here.
- Rico Vitz
