New England Workshop on
Consciousness & Agency
October 25–27, 2024, Rhode Island College (Providence, RI)
October 25–27, 2024, Rhode Island College (Providence, RI)
Tamar Schapiro (MIT)
"Philosophy of Agency from the Participant Standpoint"
Comments: Nicole An (Yale University)
Patrick McKee (Brown)
"Experience Machines and Experiencing Machines: The Welfare of Disembodied AIs"
Declan Smithies (The Ohio State University)
"A Hedonic Theory of Desire"
Comments: Eliška Wichterlová (Boston University)
Adam Pautz (Brown University)
"Consciousness and Easy Reference to Qualities: A Problem for Physicalists"
Comments: Selina Guter (MIT)
Matt Duncan (Rhode Island College) & Sharon Casu (University of Fribourg)
"Groups are Aesthetically and Morally Alienated"
Comments: Chaeyoung Paek (UMass, Amherst)
Ned Markosian (UMass, Amherst)
"Causation, Agent Causation, and Free Will"
Comments: Michele Odisseas Impagnatiello (Princeton University)
Organisers: Matt Duncan (RIC) and Sharon Casu (University of Fribourg)