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Philosophy Graduate Workshop: Conceptions of Causality and Freedom in the History of Metaphysics

April 2, 2014 @ 9:30 am

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Date:
April 2, 2014
Time:
9:30 am

Conceptions of Causality and Freedom

in the History of Metaphysics

Graduate Student Workshop in Traditional Metaphysics

National University of Ireland, Galway

The workshop will bring together graduate scholars engaging metaphysical, epistemological and moralissues surrounding freedom and causality in the history of metaphysics broadly understood.Although there is no registration fee, do email d.parashkevova1@nuigalway.ie if you plan to attend.The workshop will take place in THB-G011 Seminar Room in the AHSSRB (new research buildingadjoining the library).

9.30Coffee and Welcome

10.00Desislava Parashkevova (NUI Galway)‰Û÷Self-Causation and Metaphysical Necessity: An Adaptation of Plato‰۪s Theory ofForms‰۪

11.00Michael Lyons (Trinity College Dublin)‰Û÷Pereboom and the Practical Reasons for Accepting Kant‰۪s Transcendental Freedom‰۪

12.00Jonathan Head (Keele)‰Û÷Schopenhauer on Freedom and the Intelligible Character‰۪

1.00Lunch, Moffetts Restaurant

2.30Morganna Lambeth (Northwestern)‰Û÷Event Perception in Kant and Heidegger‰۪

3.30Coffee

4.00Damir Cicic (Central European University)‰Û÷What is Incompatibilism?‰۪

5.00Dinner in Galway City

For more information please contact tsarina.doyle@nuigalway.ie