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Program:

Friday (start around 12.00):

Leon de Bruin & Derek Strijbos (University of Bochum & Radboud University Nijmegen)

Practical Reasoning and Reason Attribution: Ontogenetic and Comparative Perspectives

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Lilian O'Brien (University College Cork)

Beyond Psychologism and Anti-Psychologism

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Maureen Sie & Arno Wouters (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

Everyday Reasons Explanations. An Analogy from Functional Biology

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Saturday:

Christoph Lumer (University of Siena)

Acting for Reasons – Scientific Challenges

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Tillmann Vierkant (University of Edinburgh)

Mindshaping and the Intentional Control of the Mind

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Constantine Sandis (Oxford Brookes University)

Enchanting Causes and Practical Reason

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Maureen Sie (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

Moral Hypocrisy and Acting for Reasons

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Sunday (end around 14.00):

Jan Bransen (Radboud University Nijmegen)

Being one's Own Truthmaker

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Frank Hindriks (University of Groningen)

Everyday Reason Talk and (Un)warranted Rationalizations

Commentators:  Bob Brecher (University of Brighton), Gerrit Glas (Free University), Wilma Göttgens (Radboud Universiteit), Fleur Jongepier (Radboud University), Katrien Schaubroeck (Utrecht University), Martin Weichold (Göttingen / Berkely), Markus Schlosser (University of Leiden), Nicole van Voorst Vader-Bours (Erasmus University),  Alexandra Varga (Central European University).

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General and registration information:

Start of the conference Friday, October 21, 12.00, end  Sunday, October 23, 14.00. All-inclusive participation to the workshop for non-speakers: 520 euro (includes accommodation two nights in a single room, two breakfasts, three lunches and two conference dinners). Participation without dinner and accommodation, but with lunch is 250 euro. Reduction of 40% for unwaged (PhD) students under the age of 30 (150 euro). If this fee is a problem, please send an email to sie@fwb.eur.nl.

All researchers working in the area welcome, only a limited number of places available.

Invited speakers and commentators will be expected to pay 220 euro for accommodation and meals (inlcudes: two breakfasts, three lunches, two conference dinners, two nights in a single room).

This year the workshop will be held at conference centre 'International School for Philosophy' (Leusden/Amersfoort), which is beautifully located in the woods nearby Utrecht & Amsterdam, the Netherlands (http://www.isvw.nl/nl/english/). It is easy to reach by public transportation.

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Topic:

The concept of 'practical reasons' plays a prominent role in metaethics and in the philosophy of mind and action. In both areas there are controversies about how exactly to understand the concept exactly. Three ideas are widely agreed upon: (1) that we are reasons responsive beings, (2) that the practice of giving and asking for reasons plays a prominent role in our everyday moral practices, and (3) that there exists some kind of trustworthy relation between our reasons and reason talk and our subsequent actions.

Developments in the Behavioral, Cognitive and Neurosciences (BCN sciences) indicate that much of what we do takes place at an automatic and unaware level, and that the reasons we provide to explain and/or justify ourselves should not be taken as reports of introspected internal states that precede our bodily movements. Also, more generally, it appears that what we do (and do not do) and for what reason is less transparent to ourselves then we might assume.

This gives rise to two questions: (1) how exactly do our everyday reason talk, our reasons (subjectively or objectively conceptualized) and our nature as reason-responsive beings connect to one another?; and (2) how do all three connect to our actions? This workshop scrutinizes this threefold relation, or parts thereof.

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!Please note that the Third Annual Dutch Conference on Practical Philosophy will be organized on the friday/saturday 14/15 October, in Amsterdam, for which a call for papers will be turned out in februari next year. Call for papers will be general (all subjects within normative theory, moral and political philosophy)!