New Ideas in Volition

Colloque organisé par Patrick Haggard (UCL / résident 2016-2017 de l'IEA de Paris) et Nura Sidarus (ENS), avec le soutien de l'IEA de Paris, de la Chaire Blaise Pascal (ENS) et du Département d'Études Cognitives (ENS)

Présentation

The capacity for voluntary action is seen as essential to human nature. Whereas this has long preoccupied philosophers, behaviourist psychology and neuroscience have traditionally dismissed the topic as unscientific. Studying volition remains difficult, yet it is of enormous relevance to understanding human experience and to societal notions of responsibility. This symposium will bring together early-career and senior researchers across psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy, to share their new ideas and methods for a scientific investigation of the neurocognitive bases of human volition.

Programme

Jeudi 7 février 2019 - Institut d'études avancées de Paris
17 quai d'Anjou, 75004 Paris

14:00 - 15:00   Intentional action and automaticity
Elisabeth Pacherie (ENS)

15:00 - 16:00   What is special about intentional action?
Sofia Bonicalzi (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

16:00 - 16:30   Pause

16:30 - 17:30   Against your will: how learning is influenced by conflict between instructions and subjective beliefs
Nura Sidarus (ENS)

17:30 - 18:30   Volition in action: Towards an agent-centred perspective on rule-violation behaviour
Roland Pfister (Universität Würzburg)

Vendredi 8 février 2019 - École Normale Supérieure
Salle Dussane, 45 rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris

09:00 - 10:00   Is volition conscious?
Patrick Haggard (UCL)

10:00 - 11:00   Volitional action and consciousness: what we know, and what we want to know
Liad Mudrik (Tel Aviv University)

11:00 - 11:30   Pause

11:30 - 12:30   Metacognition and freedom of choice: introspecting the cause of our actions
Lucie Charles (UCL)

12:30 - 13:30   Can we separate (the functional anatomy of) volition from sense agency?
Eraldo Paulesu (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)