人类行动与人类知识国际研讨会

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Time: 27-28 September, 2010

Place: Room 205, No. 7 Building, Zhong Guan Xin Yuan Hotel, Peking University

Organized by

Department of Philosophy and Institute of Foreign Philosophy, Peking University

The Leverhulme Network on Philosophy of Action Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Institute of Logic and Cognition, Sun Yat-Sen University

Sponsored by

Department of Philosophy and Institute of Foreign Philosophy, Peking University

Institute of Logic and Cognition, Sun Yat-Sen University

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PROGRAMME

27 September

8:30-9:00am: Opening and Photographing

Section 1: Reasons for Action

Chair: Alfred Mele 9:00am-9:50am

Jonathan Dancy (University of Texas at Austin, USA; University of Reading, UK): Acting in Ignorance 9:50am-10:40am

Maria Alvarez (King’s College London, UK)

Explaining Actions & Explaining Bodily Movements

10:40am-11:00am Break

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Chair: Hans-Johann Glock 11:00am-11:50am

John Hyman (University of Oxford, UK): Acting for Reasons 11:50am-12:40pm

Tian Ping (Beijing Normal University, China):

Reasons as Causes of Action: A Missing Dimension in Davidson's Revival of an Old Tradition

12:40pm-2:00pm

Lunch

Section 2: Agency and Causation

Chair: James Beebe 2:00pm-2:50pm

Helen Steward (University of Leeds, UK): Agency, Causation and Properties 2:50pm-3:40pm

Xu Xiangdong (Peking University, China): Agent-Causation and Free Agency

3:40-4:00pm Break

Chair: Erasmus Mayr 4:00-4:50pm

Andrei Buckareff (Marist College, USA): Agent-Causal Powers 4:50-5:40pm

Zhong Lei (Peking University, China):

Rethinking the Explanatory Exclusion of Human Action

28 September

Section 3: Action and Knowledge

Chair: John Hyman 9:00am-9:50am

Hans-Johann Glock (University of Zurich, Switzerland): On Non-Human Knowledge and Non-Human Agency 9:50am-10:40am

Erasmus Mayr (Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany):

Knowing What One Does: Intentional Agency and Non-Observational Knowledge

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10:40-11:00am Break

Chair: Jonathan Dancy 11:00-11:50am

James Beebe (The State University of New York at Buffalo, USA): Surprising Connections between Knowledge and Action 11:50am-12:40pm

Tang Refeng (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China): Moral Action and Moral Knowledge in Aristotle’s Ethics

12:40-2:00pm

Lunch

Section 4: Human Knowledge

Chair: Helen Steward 2:00-2:50pm

Wang Hua-Ping (Shangdong University, China): Disjunctivism, Skepticism and Fideism 2:50-3:40pm

Zhu Jing (Sun Yat-Sen University, China):

Naturalized Epistemology and Epistemic Normativity

3:40-4:00pm Break

Section 5: Free Will

Chair: Mariz Alvarez 4:00-4:50pm

Chen Gang (Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China): The Possibility of Free Will 4:50-5:40pm

Alfred Mele (Florida State University, USA): Free Will, Science and Law

6:00-8:00pm: Dinner

Quanjude Beijing Roast Duck Restaurant, Qing Hua Yuan Subdivision

29 September

Trip to the Great Wall

Depart on 8:30am in the front of the Hotel

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