Workshop: Personal Identity and Agency

On March 27 and 28, 2017, the event took place at the Institute of Philosophy of the Universidad Austral el Interdisciplinary workshop “Personal Identity and Agency”It was aimed at researchers in the areas of Philosophy, Psychology and Neuroscience, interested in the importance of the notion of agency in the debate on personal identity, mainly in the context of Cognitive Science.

The discussion surrounding personal identity has a long tradition in philosophy. For a long time, it has focused on memory as the criterion to consider in guaranteeing the continuity of the same person. But there are other biological, psychological, and ontological variations. The recent perspective of including agency as an essential component of personal identity responds both to philosophical concerns and to specific interests within cognitive science.

Coordinators: Dr. Juan Francisco Franck and Dr. Georg Gasser.

Program

Lunes de marzo 27

10 Accreditation

10:15 Opening

10:30       The neural bases of the agency – Ángela Suburo (CONICET – Universidad Austral)

11:30 Break

12:00       Agency philosophy – Georg Gasser (University of Innsbruck)

13:00 Lunch (Executive Dining Room, IAE)

15:00 (I) Minimal sense of itself and agency: an analysis of core of subjective activity – Ivana Anton Mlinar (CONICET – National University of Cuyo)

15:45 (II) The notion of agency in Shaun Gallagher and James Russellin light of an empirical study with children from typical development and children on the autism spectrum – Xilenia María Carreras (National University of Córdoba)

16:30 Break

17:00 (III) Primary school students' conceptions about the meaning of agency for apprentices and teachers of writing – Ana Clara Ventura (CONICET – National University of Comahue)

17:45 (IV) The self as the foundation of identity based on the Dan Zahavi's Phenomenology of Mind – Pablo Emanuel García (Catholic University of San Pablo, Arequipa, Peru)

18:30 End of the first day

Tuesday March 28

10:00 (V) What is a 'dignified' life and the problem of personal identity – Mariana Córdoba Revah (CONICET – University of Buenos Aires)

10:45 (VI) Personal identity and organic constitution. The framework of analysis within a non-reductionist naturalism – Nicolás Moreira Alaniz (University of the Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay)

11:30 Break

12:00 (VII) Agents and Homunculi: The Construction of a Myth – María Ayelen Sanchez (CONICET – National University of the South)

13:00 Lunch

15:00 (VIII) Agency, experience and conceptualization: An analysis of Dreyfus-McDowell debate from an idealist perspective critical in Fichte – Lucila María Figueroa Frumento (National University of the South)

15:45 (IX) The phenomenon of the 'gap' and the theory of 'agent causality' – Juan Ignacio Blanco Ilari (CONICET – National University of General Sarmiento)

16:30 Break

17:15 (X) Identity Theories in Economics – Ricardo Crespo (CONICET – Universidad Austral)

18:00 (XI) The contribution of experience of acting to the human identity as agents – Beatriz Sorrentino Marques (Federal University of Mato Grosso, Brazil)

18:45 Closing

This activity has been made possible thanks to a grant awarded by the Ian Ramsey Centre of the University of Oxford, within the framework of the project “Science, Philosophy, and Theology: Capability Building in Latin America”.