Brief description: We will be reading recent papers in philosophy of action and moral psychology about action, intention, freedom, moral responsibility, retributive attitudes, and so on.

Dates and sessions:

First session, Oct. 3, 12am-2pm: Bernard Berofsky, “Freedom as Creativity”, Journal of Philosophy, 2015, pp. 373-95.

Second session, Oct. 17, 12am-2pm: David Shoemaker, “Ecumenical Attributability”.

Third session, Oct. 24, 12am-2pm: Robert Hartman, “Against Luck-free Moral Responsibility”, Philosophical Studies, Volume 173, Issue 10, 2016, pp 2845–2865.

Fourth session, Nov. 7, 12am-2pm: Oded Na’aman, “Reasons of Love: a case against universalism about practical reason”, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 115, issue 3, 2015, pp. 315-322.

Fifth session, Jan. 10, 12:30am-2pm: Michael Garnett, “Agency and Inner Freedom”, Nous 51, issue 1, 2017, pp. 3-23.

Sixth session, Jan. 17, 12:30am-2pm: Michael Garnett, “Agency and Inner Freedom”, Nous 51, issue 1, 2017, pp. 3-23.

Seventh session, Jan. 24, 12:30am-2pm: Neil Levy, “Implicit bias and moral responsibility: probing the data”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 94, no. 1, 2017, pp. 3-26.

Eighth session, Feb. 7, 12:30am-2pm: Neil Levy, “Implicit bias and moral responsibility: probing the data”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 94, no. 1, 2017, pp. 3-26.

Ninth session, Apr. 11, 12am-2pm: “Determinisme i responsabilitat en la filosofia antiga” (no previous readings required)

Tenth session, Apr. 18, 12am-2pm: Patarroyo, C. “Sobre las alternativas robustas contextuales”; Pérez de Calleja, M. “Sobre la respuesta de Carlos Moya al argumento de la suerte”; Rychter, P. “Rescatando los casos tipo Mele/Robb”, and Carlos Moya’s answers.

Eleventh session, Apr. 25, 12am-2pm: Mavis Biss, “Radical moral imagination and moral luck”, Metaphilosophy, vol. 47, Nos. 4-5, 2016, pp. 558-570.

Twelfth session, May 2, 12am-2pm: Manuel Vargas, “The social constitution of agency and resposibility: oppression, politics and moral ecology” , in Hutchinson, K., McKenzie, C. and Oshana, M. (eds.) The social dimensions of responsibility, Oxford University Press, 2017.

Thirteenth session, May. 9, 12am-2pm: Patarroyo, C. “Sobre las alternativas robustas contextuales” and Carlos Moya’s answer.

Fourteenth session, May. 23, 12am-2pm: Randolph Clarke, “Free will, causation, and absence”, Philosophical Studies, vol. 175(6), 2018, pp. 1517-1524; and Carolina Sartorio, “Reply to Clarke”, in “Replies to critics”, Philosophical Studies, vol. 175(6), 2018, pp. 1545-1556.

Fifteenth session, June 6, 12am-2pm: Alfred Mele, “Diana and Ernie return: on Carolina Sarotorio’s Causation and Free Will“, Philosophical Studies, vol. 175(6), 2018, pp. 1525-1533; and Carolina Sartorio, “Reply to Mele”, in “Replies to critics”, Philosophical Studies, vol. 175(6), 2018, pp. 1545-1556.

Sixteenth session, June 13, 12am-2pm: Derk Pereboom, “On Carolina Sarotorio’s Causation and Free Will“, Philosophical Studies, vol. 175(6), 2018, pp. 1535-1543; and Carolina Sartorio, “Reply to Pereboom”, in “Replies to critics”, Philosophical Studies, vol. 175(6), 2018, pp. 1545-1556.

Seventeenth session, June 20, 12am-2pm: Matthias Steup, “Believing intentionally”, Synthese, vol. 194, 2017, pp. 2673-94.

Eighteenth session, June 27, 10:30am-12:30am: Christopher Franklin, “If anyone should be an agent-causalist, then everyone should be an agent-causalist”, Mind, vol. 125, 2016, pp. 1101-31.

All sessions will take place at Blasco’s Room (5th floor)

Coordinators: Carlos Moya and Sergi Rosell

Contact: sergi.rosell@uv.es

Self-Knowledge, Moral Responsibility, and Authenticity (FFI2016-75323-P)