ULaval Everything Agency Conference/Colloque L'agentivité dans tous ses états
Second Annual ULaval Everything Agency Conference
The second Annual ULaval Everything Agency Conference will be held on April 24-25, 2025, at Université Laval, Québec City, Canada.
The conference aims to bring together researchers working on the theoretical aspects of agency: philosophy of action, philosophy of emotions, epistemology, normative ethics, normativity broadly construed, meta-ethics and ethical theory in connection to agency, political philosophy, political science, foundational issues in artificial intelligence, and philosophy of biology.
In addition to the keynote talks, there will be eight slots for papers selected through the call for papers.
Our keynote speakers for 2025 are:
- Michael Bratman (Stanford University)
- Agnes Callard (University of Chicago)
- Jane Friedman (New York University)
- Alex Worsnip (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Organizers: Artūrs Logins (Université Laval) and Catherine Rioux (Université Laval), co-organizer: Nathan Howard (University of Toronto).
Program
Program 2025
| 24 April, LAU-3452 (Pavillon Laurentienne), ULaval | 25 April, LAU-3452 (Pavillon Laurentienne), ULaval |
| 8:30-9:00 Welcome, coffee | 8:30-9:00 Welcome, coffee |
9:00 – 10:30 Michael Bratman (Stanford), "Time, Sociality, Institutions: The Core Capacity Conjecture" Chair: Catherine Rioux (Université Laval) | 9:00 – 10:30 Agnes Callard (Chicago), "The Wrong Conversation" Chair: Nathan Howard (Toronto) |
| 10:30 – 10:45 Coffee pause | 10:30 – 10:45 Coffee pause |
10:45 – 11:30 Felix Lambrecht (Toronto), “Diachronic Group Agency” Chair: Michael Kremer (Chicago) | 10:45 – 11:30 Sherry Kao (Georgetown), “The Normativity of Aspiration and Hope” Chair: Vincent Rochelle (Ulaval) |
11:30 – 12:15 Vasiliki Xiromeriti (Lyon), “Practical reasoning and joint action: How collective deliberation structures cooperation” Chair: tba | 11:30 – 12:15 Anne Iavarone-Turcotte (McGill), “Adaptive Choices vs Adaptive Preferences: A Proposed Shift” Chair: Erika Olivaux Marmignon (ULaval) |
12:15 – 13:30 Lunch (at Cafétéria du Palasis-Prince, on campus, nearby building) | 12:15 – 13:30 Lunch (at Cafétéria du Palasis-Prince, on campus, nearby building) |
13:30 – 15:00 Jane Friedman (NYU), "Zetetic Success" Chair: Arturs Logins, (Université Laval) | 13:30 – 15:00 Alex Worsnip (UNC-Chapel Hill), "Skepticism about "Commitment" (or: The Tortoise's Revenge)" Chair: Patrick Turmel (Université Laval) |
| 15:00 – 15:15 Coffee pause | 15:00 – 15:15 Coffee pause |
15:15 – 16:00 Daniel Cserhalmi Friedman (Stanford), “Two Kinds of Error in Shared Inquiry” Chair: Samuel Carlsson Tjernström (McGill) | 15:15 – 16:00 Martin Niederl (Chicago), “Epistemic Defeaters, Normative Reasons, and Animal Agency” Chair: TBA |
16:00 – 16:45 Jingzhi Chen (McGill), “Being Good Friends Without Being Bad Believers” Chair: Bruno Guindon (Simon Fraser University) | 16:00 – 16:45 Andrea Daventry (California State University, San Bernardino), “An Agential Account of Gaslighting” Chair: Alexis Morin-Martel (McGill) |
| Cocktail, the Félix-Antoine Savard Pavillon, FAS 140Z | |
NEWS
The program is ready!
Everyone is welcome to the conference; attendance is free, but registration is required.
Please register by email at everythingagency@ulaval.ca.
The deadline for registration is April 18, April 22, 2025.
Deuxième édition du colloque L'agentivité dans tous ses états
Le second colloque annuel L’agentivité dans tous ses états se tiendra les 24 et 25 avril 2025, il vise à rassembler des chercheuses et des chercheurs travaillant sur des aspects théoriques relatifs à l'agentivité: philosophie de l'action, philosophie des émotions, épistémologie, normativité au sens large, méta-éthique, théorie éthique, philosophie politique, science politique, et autres.
Outre les conférences plénières, huit conférences seront données sélectionnées suite à l'appel à contributions.
Nos conférences plénières pour 2025 seront données par:
- Michael Bratman (Stanford University)
- Agnes Callard (University of Chicago)
- Jane Friedman (New York University)
- Alex Worsnip (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Organisation: Artūrs Logins (Université Laval) et Catherine Rioux (Université Laval), co-organisateur: Nathan Howard (University of Toronto).
NOUVELLES
Tout le monde est le bienvenu à la conférence, l’entrée est gratuite sur inscription obligatoire.
Veuillez vous inscrire par courriel à everythingagency@ulaval.ca.
La date limite pour s’inscrire est le 18 22 avril 2025.
Le programme de l'édition 2025 est prête, voici les détails:
| 24 April, LAU-3452 (Pavillon Laurentienne), ULaval | 25 April, LAU-3452 (Pavillon Laurentienne), ULaval |
| 8:30-9:00 Café | 8:30-9:00 Café |
9:00 – 10:30 Michael Bratman (Stanford), "Time, Sociality, Institutions: The Core Capacity Conjecture" Présidence de séance: Catherine Rioux (Université Laval) | 9:00 – 10:30 Agnes Callard (Chicago), "The Wrong Conversation" Présidence: Nathan Howard (Toronto) |
| 10:30 – 10:45 Café | 10:30 – 10:45 Café |
10:45 – 11:30 Felix Lambrecht (Toronto), “Diachronic Group Agency” Présidence: Michael Kremer (Chicago) | 10:45 – 11:30 Sherry Kao (Georgetown), “The Normativity of Aspiration and Hope” Présidence: Vincent Rochelle (Ulaval) |
11:30 – 12:15 Vasiliki Xiromeriti (Lyon), “Practical reasoning and joint action: How collective deliberation structures cooperation” Présidence: Olivia Sultanescu (Concordia) | 11:30 – 12:15 Anne Iavarone-Turcotte (McGill), “Adaptive Choices vs Adaptive Preferences: A Proposed Shift” Présidence: Erika Olivaux Marmignon (ULaval) |
12:15 – 13:30 Repas de midi (Cafétéria du Palasis-Prince) | 12:15 – 13:30 Repas de midi (Cafétéria du Palasis-Prince) |
13:30 – 15:00 Jane Friedman (NYU), "Zetetic Success" Présidence: Arturs Logins, (Université Laval) | 13:30 – 15:00 Alex Worsnip (UNC-Chapel Hill), "Skepticism about "Commitment" (or: The Tortoise's Revenge)" Présidence: Patrick Turmel (Université Laval) |
| 15:00 – 15:15 Café | 15:00 – 15:15 Café |
15:15 – 16:00 Daniel Cserhalmi Friedman (Stanford), “Two Kinds of Error in Shared Inquiry” Présidence: Samuel Carlsson Tjernström (McGill) | 15:15 – 16:00 Martin Niederl (Chicago), “Epistemic Defeaters, Normative Reasons, and Animal Agency” Présidence: TBA |
16:00 – 16:45 Jingzhi Chen (McGill), “Being Good Friends Without Being Bad Believers” Présidence: Bruno Guindon (Simon Fraser University) | 16:00 – 16:45 Andrea Daventry (California State University, San Bernardino), “An Agential Account of Gaslighting” Présidence: Alexis Morin-Martel (McGill) |
| Cocktail, Félix-Antoine Savard Pavillon, FAS 140Z | |
ARCHIVES, 2024 - First Annual ULaval Everything Agency Conference
[ARCHIVES, 2024] The First Annual ULaval Everything Agency Conference Program 2024
April 25th-26th | Université Laval
Thursday, April 25th
Pavillon Alphonse-Desjardins, 2325 Rue de l’Université, Québec
Room ADJ-2320
| 8:30-9:00 | Welcome/coffee |
| 9:00-10:30 | Berislav Marušić (University of Edinburgh) “The Ethicist and the Ontologist: On self-Prediction in Practical Reasoning.” Chair: Patrick Turmel (Université Laval) |
| 10:30-10:45 | Coffee pause |
| 10:45-11:30 | Derek Lam (California State University, Sacramento) “Not being sure of Myself.” Chair: Romane Marcotte (Université Laval) |
| 11:30-12:15 | Yuan Tian (Harvard) “An Interpersonal Form of Faith.” Chair: Vincent Rochelle (Université Laval) |
| 12:15-13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30-15:00 | John Brunero (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) “Reasons for Action, Reasons for Intentions, and Agency.” Chair: Catherine Rioux (Université Laval) |
| 15:00-15:15 | Coffee pause |
| 15:15-16:00 | Eugene Chislenko (Temple University) “Blame as Attention” Chair: Laura Silva (Université Laval) |
| 16:00-16:45 | Chris Blake-Turner (Oklahoma State University) “Rational Intelligibility and The Kernel of Truth in The Guise of the Good” Chair: David James Barnett (University of Toronto) |
| 17:30-19:30 | Cocktail, the Félix-Antoine Savard Pavillon, FAS 140Z |
Friday, April 26th
Pavillon Alphonse-Desjardins, 2325 Rue de l’Université, Québec
Room ADJ-2320
| 8:30-9:00 | Welcome/coffee |
| 9:00-10:30 | Timothy Williamson (Oxford) "Decision theory and acting on what one knows" Chair: Artūrs Logins (Université Laval) |
| 10:30-10:45 | Coffee pause |
| 10:45-11:30 | Alison Springle (The University of Miami) “Acting for Reasons : An Acorn Account.” Chair: Pierre-Olivier Méthot (Université Laval) |
| 11:30-12:15 | Austen McDougal (Princeton) “Motives, the New Frontier for Control.” Chair : Joshua Brecka (University of Toronto) |
| 12:15-13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30-15:00 | Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern University) “Epistemic Agency in Action” Chair: Jacob Hamel-Mottiez (Université Laval) |
| 15:00-15:15 | Coffee pause |
| 15:15-16:00 | Rowan Mellor (Northwestern University) “Why Cooperate? Team Reasoning and Unwillingness.” Chair: Nathan Howard (University of Toronto) |
| 16:00-16:45 | Jay Jian (National Academy of Taiwan) “Instrumental Agency and the Pre-conditions of Ends.” Chair: Miriam Schleifer McCormick (University of Richmond) |
| 16:45-17:00 | Closing Remarks |
[ARCHIVES, 2024] Programme du premier colloque annuel - L'Agentivité dans tous ses états 2024
Jeudi 25 avril, Pavillon Alphonse-Desjardins, 2325 Rue de l’Université, Québec, Local ADJ-2320 | 8h30-9h00 | Accueil/café |
| 9h00-10h30 | Berislav Marušić (Université d'Édimbourg) "The Ethicist and the Ontologist: On self-Prediction in Practical Reasoning." Président: Patrick Turmel (Université Laval) |
| 10h30-10h45 | Pause café |
| 10h45-11h30 | Derek Lam (California State University, Sacramento) "Not being sure of Myself." Président: Romane Marcotte (Université Laval) |
| 11h30-12h15 | Yuan Tian (Harvard) "An Interpersonal Form of Faith." Président: Vincent Rochelle (Université Laval) |
| 12h15-13h30 | Déjeuner |
| 13h30-15h00 | John Brunero (Université du Nebraska-Lincoln) "Reasons for Action, Reasons for Intentions, and Agency." Présidente: Catherine Rioux (Université Laval) |
| 15h00-15h15 | Pause café |
| 15h15-16h00 | Eugene Chislenko (Temple University) "Blame as Attention." Présidente: Laura Silva (Université Laval) |
| 16h00-16h45 | Chris Blake-Turner (Oklahoma State University) “Rational Intelligibility and The Kernel of Truth in The Guise of the Good” Président: David James Barnett (Université de Toronto) |
| 17h30-19h30 | Cocktail (Félix-Antoine Savard), FAS 140Z |
| | Vendredi 26 avril, Pavillon Alphonse-Desjardins, 2325 Rue de l’Université, Québec Local ADJ-2320 |
| 8h30-9h00 | Accueil/café |
| 9h00-10h30 | Timothy Williamson (Oxford) "Decision theory and acting on what one knows" Président: Artūrs Logins (Université Laval) |
| 10h30-10h45 | Pause café |
| 10h45-11h30 | Alison Springle (The University of Miami) “Acting for Reasons : An Acorn Account.” Président: Pierre-Olivier Méthot (Université Laval) |
| 11h30-12h15 | Austen McDougal (Princeton) “Motives, the New Frontier for Control.” Président : Joshua Brecka (University of Toronto) |
| 12h15-13h30 | Déjeuner |
| 13h30-15h00 | Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern University): “Epistemic Agency in Action” Président: Jacob Hamel-Mottiez (Université Laval) |
| 15h00-15h15 | Pause café |
| 15h15-16h00 | Rowan Mellor (Northwestern University) “Why Cooperate? Team Reasoning and Unwillingness.” Président: Nathan Howard (University of Toronto) |
| 16h00-16h45 | Jay Jian (National Academy of Taiwan) “Instrumental Agency and the Pre-conditions of Ends.” Président: Miriam Schleifer McCormick (University of Richmond) |
| 16h45-17h00 | Remarques de clôture |
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