Mental Causation Workshop

Syracuse University, Friday 30 November–Sunday 2 December

MR. RODMAN'S TREPANNING INSTRUMENT

Contacts

For more information contact Robert Van Gulick or Alyssa Ney.

Speakers

Robert Van Gulick (Syracuse)Karen Bennett (Cornell)
Bence Nanay (Syracuse)Justin Tiehen (University of Puget Sound)
Sydney Shoemaker (Cornell)Laurie Paul (Arizona)
Derk Pereboom (Cornell)Eric Funkhouser (Arkansas)
Alyssa Ney (Rochester)Brad Weslake (Rochester)
Jessica Wilson (Toronto)Doug Kutach (Brown)

Program: All Sessions to be Held in 500 Hall of Languages

Friday 30 November
4:30pm–6:00pmRobert Van Gulick, "(Teleo-pragmatic Functionalism)x2: What Does Our Theory of Mind Tell Us About an Understanding of the Mind?"
 
7:00pmDINNER
 
 
Saturday 1 December
9:30am–11:30amBence Nanay, "Davidson or Tropes? Or Something in the Middle? On the Properties of Mental Causation"
Justin Tiehen, "Explaining Causal Closure (or: The Problem with Dualism Isn’t Causal)"
 
11:45am–1:00pmSydney Shoemaker, "Physical Realization and Mental Causation"
 
1:00pm–2:30pmLUNCH
 
2:30pm–4:30pmLaurie Paul, "Nonreductionism without Additivity"
Derk Pereboom, "Nonreductive Physicalism, Anti-Functionalism, and Real Mental Causation"
 
4:45pm–6:45pmEric Funkhouser, "Realization: Two Common Missteps"
Jessica Wilson, "Determination, Realization, and Mental Causation"
 
7:30pmDINNER
 
 
Sunday 2 December
9:30am–11:30amAlyssa Ney, "Beyond the Supervenience Argument"
Doug Kutach, "Causal Reduction"
 
11:30–12:30pm LUNCH
 
12:30pm–2:30pmKaren Bennett, "Title TBA"
Brad Weslake, "Interventionism and Exclusion"
5 November 2007