Conference Schedule All sessions will be held in the Empire Room of the Williamsburg Hospitality House

Williamsburg, Virginia 23187-8795 P.O. Box 8795 Department of Philosophy The College of & Mary William THE STUDY

OF THE Thursday, September 25th Friday, September 26th

HUMAN SELF 8:30 am Opening Remarks Third Session 8:45 - 9:15 am Introduction to the Topic and Format Moderator: of the Conference - Paul Davies Matthew Haug, Department of Philosophy, W&M The Second Biennial 8:30 am Robert Kane First Session 9:00 am Alfred Mele Moderator: 9:30 am Daniel Wegner William and Mary Colloquium John Griffin, Director of Neuroscience, W&M 9:30 am Jaak Panksepp Coffee Break (15 minutes) in Philosophy 10:00 am Todd Heatherton 10:30 am Patricia Churchland 10:15 am Questions from panelists 11:30 am Open Q&A September 25-26, 2008 Coffee Break (15 minutes) Session concludes at noon

11:15 am Questions from panelists Lunch 12:00 noon -1:30 pm 12:00 noon Open Q&A Session concludes at 12:30 pm Objectives of the Conference Fourth Session Moderator: Lunch 12:30-2:00 pm Although we are learning from and James Dwyer, School of Law, W&M neuroscience that we are not the kinds of agents 1:30 pm Open Q&A described in our traditional humanistic theories Second Session Session concludes at 3:30 pm of the self, we do not yet know what kind of agent Moderator: we are. We do not yet know how to think of Christopher Ball, Department of Psychology, W&M 3:30-4:00 pm Concluding Remarks ourselves as deliberators, choosers, and actors. 2:00 pm Roy Baumeister 4:00 - 5:00 pm Concluding Reception At the conclusion of this interdisciplinary conference, 2:30 pm Esther Sternberg panelists and participants will have addressed 3:00 pm Tamar Gendler the following questions: Coffee Break (15 minutes) What kind of agent are we? This conference is made possible What are we actually like as deliberators, with funds from: choosers, and actors? 3:45 pm Questions from panelists And what are the methods of inquiry most 4:30 pm Open Q&A The Rachel & E.W. Thompson Philosophy Endowment likely to help us discover the truth about our Session concludes at 5:00 pm The Forades Philosophy Department Speaker’s capacities as agents? Series Endowment 6:00 pm Social Hour at the Hospitality House The Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences The College of William & Mary 7:00 pm Dinner Banquet at the Hospitality House Department of Philosophy Williamsburg, Virginia The Study of the Human Self - -

Panelists Todd Heatherton Esther Sternberg Department of Psychological National Institute of Health, Roy Baumeister and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth Neuroendocrine Immunology and Department of Psychology, Florida College. Todd is co-editor (with Behavior Section. Esther is author State University. Roy’s most recent Roy Baumeister) of Losing control: of The Balance Within: The Science book is The Cultural Animal: How and why people fail at self- Connecting Health and Emotions Human Nature, Meaning, and regulation, (1994), San Diego: (2000), W.H. Freeman and Co.: Social Life (2005), published by Academic Press. He is also co- paperback (2001), Holt (translated Oxford University Press. He is co- editor of The Psychological Science: Mind, Brain, and into Dutch, Chinese, Japanese). editor of Are We Free? Psychology Behavior, (2003), published by W.W. Norton. (http:// (http://www.esthersternberg.com) and (2008), also by OUP www.dartmouth.edu/~heath/) (http://www.psy.fsu.edu/faculty/baumeist.dp.html) Daniel Wegner Robert Kane Department of Psychology, Patricia Churchland Department of Philosophy, . Dan’s most William of College The to payable checks covers Make conference the for Registration Mary. dinner and and hour social a sessions, all of costs the reception. concluding a and banquet, $150 and 2008 26th August until $120 is fee The thereafter. conference reduced a at available are rooms Hospi Hotel Williamsburg the at night per $119 be of will rate sessions conference all where House, tality reservations rate, conference the secure To Hos held. the Call 2008. 26, August by received be must 757-229-4020. at House pitality Department of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin. Robert recent book is The Illusion of University of California San is author of The Significance of Free Conscious Will (2002), published Diego. Patricia’s most recent Will (1996), published by Oxford by MIT Press. (http://www.wjh. book is Brain-Wise: Studies in University Press. Most recently harvard.edu/~wegner/) Neurophilosophy (2002), published he is editor of A Contemporary by MIT Press. (http://philosophy. Introduction to Free Will (2005), Oxford University Press. (http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/ ucsd.edu/faculty/pschurchland/ Riverside Regional Medical index20.html) ~rkane/) Center’s Department of Medical Education is the CME sponsor Paul Sheldon Davies Alfred Mele Department of Philosophy, College Department of Philosophy, for this conference. of William and Mary. Paul’s most Florida State University. Al’s recent book is Subjects of the World: most recent book is Free Will and Riverside Regional Medical Center is Darwin’s Rhetoric and the Study of Luck (2006), published by Oxford accredited by the Medical Society of Agency in Nature (2009), published University Press. (http://www. Virginia to provide continuing Medical fsu.edu/~philo/people/faculty/ by the University of Chicago Press. Education for Physicians. almele.html) Tamar Szabo Gendler The target audience for CME credit is Jaak Panksepp Department of Philosophy and neurologists, psychiatrists, and other College of Veterinary Medicine, Chair of Cognitive Science Washington State University. Jaak’s interested healthcare providers. Program, Yale University. Tamar’s most recent edited book is the most recent articles include “Alief Textbook of Biological Psychiatry Riverside Regional Medical Center and Belief” (2008) in Journal of (Wiley, 2004). He is author of designates this educational activity for a Philosophy and “Self-Deception as Affective Neuroscience: The maximum of 11.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Pretense” (2008) in Philosophical Perspectives: Mind. Foundations of Human and Animal Credits. Physicians should only claim credit She is co-editor of Conceivability and Possibility (2002),

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