Brief description: We will be reading recent papers in philosophy of action and moral psychology about action, intention, voluntariness, freedom, moral responsibility, retributive attitudes, and so on.
Preliminary Schedule:
Sessions will take place every Wednesday from 17pm to 19pm. The preliminary schedule is as follows:
Books:
The Shape of Agency by Joshua Shepherd (open access)
14/12/2022: 1. Introduction + 2. Control’s Possession
18/01/2023: 3. Non-deviant Causation
01/02/2023: 4. Varietals of Control’s Exercise
15/02/2023: 5. Intentional Action (until 5.5 included)
01/03/2023: 5. Intentional Action (from 5.6. on)
Papers:
07/03/2023: The Province of Human Agency by Anton Ford
29/03/2023: Are Actions Bodily Movements? by Michael Smith
24/05/2023: Anscombe’s Intention and Practical Knowledge by Michael Thompson
07/06/2023: Reasons for Action, Acting for Reasons, and Rationality by María Álvarez
21/06/2023: The Essential Superficiality of the Voluntary and the Moralization of Psychology by Matthieu Queloz
Work in progress:
03/05/2023: A Defense of Conjuctive Volitionalism by Carlos Jaén
Coordinators: Christian Carbonell and Sergi Rosell
Contact: sergi.rosell@uv.es
