Dates: February 16-20, 2019
Venue: University of Tokyo, Komaba Campus & Komaba II Campus
Organizers: John O'Dea & Kengo Miyazono
Funding: JSPS KAKENHI (18H00605: 16K02109: 16K02110)
Dinner: Dinner will be organised at a nearby restaurant for the nights of the 16th, 17th, 19th and 20th. If you are interested in joining, please send an email to John O'Dea (odea@chora.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp) with the subject line "Dinner for Tokyo Agency Conference" by February 11th at the latest. The cost will be in the vicinity of ¥3000 – ¥5000.
Pre-Conference Workshop: Pictorial Experience
February 16
Komaba II Campus, RCAST Building 3, 2nd floor (middle) seminar room (map)
10:00-10:10: [Coffee]
10:10-12:00: Katerina Bantinaki (University of Crete)
"On narrative pictures"
12:00-2:00pm: [Lunch]
2:00-3:50pm: Catharine Abell (University of Manchester)
"Depiction, systems of representation, and resemblance"
4:10-6:00pm: Mikael Pettersson (Lingnan University)
"Nothing to See Here"
Main Conference: Aspects of Agency
February 17
Komaba Campus, KIBER 3rd floor, Room 314 (map)
10:00-10:10: [Coffee]
10:10-12:00: Fiona Macpherson (University of Glasgow)
“Is virtual reality experience veridical, illusory, or hallucinatory?”
12:00-2:00pm: [Lunch]
2:00-3:50pm: Kenneth Aizawa (Rutgers University)
“Cognition, behavior, and paralysis”
4:10-6:00pm: Nick J.J. Smith (University of Sydney)
“Does representing degrees of belief as real numbers involve artificial precision?”
February 18
Komaba Campus, Faculty House seminar room (map)
10:00-10:10: [Coffee]
10:10-12:00: Tim Bayne (Monash University)
“Agency, consciousness, and the first-person perspective: Another look at the split-brain syndrome”
[free afternoon]
February 19
Komaba Campus, KIBER 3rd floor, Room 314 (map)
10:00-10:10: [Coffee]
10:10-12:00: Brian McLaughlin (Rutgers University)
“Reasons and actions”
12:00-2:00pm: [Lunch]
2:00-3:50pm: Nevia Dolcini (University of Macau)
“Self-deception and action”
4:10-6:00pm: Kengo Miyazono (Hiroshima University)
“Intermediate agency”
February 20
Komaba II Campus, RCAST Building 3, 2nd floor (middle) seminar room (map)
10:00-10:10: [Coffee]
10:10-12:00: Mark Selzer (University of Nebraska–Lincoln)
“Importing reasons from other worlds: The latent capacity interpretation of the explanatory constraint”
12:00-2:00pm: [Lunch]
2:00-3:50pm: Istvan Zardai (Keio University)
“Is there an essential difference between actions and events?”
4:10-6:00pm: Neil Sinhababu (National University of Singapore)
“Credence in psychological explanation”
