2021 Edition  

XIV INTERNATIONAL ONTOLOGY CONGRESS
NATURAL DETERMINISM AND FREE WILL

 

San Sebastián, UPV/EHU Facultad de Educación, Filosofía y Antropología. 28 September - 2 October 2021

 

BUS to Chillida-Leku Museum on the 28th of September 2021 

First stop at 16:00h – Hotel Ilunion San Sebastián.

Second stop at 16:10h – Univ. of the Basque Country, Philosophy Faculty. Avenida de Tolosa 70.

 

BUS to Chillida-Leku Museum on the 2nd of October 2021  

First stop at 09:00h – Hotel Ilunion San Sebastián.

Second stop at 09:10h – Univ. of the Basque Country, Philosophy Faculty. Avenida de Tolosa 70. 

 

PROGRAM

• September 28 - Chillida-Leku Museum
• September 29 - University of the Basque Country. Facultad de Educación, Filosofía y Antropología.
• September 30 - University of the Basque Country. Facultad de Educación, Filosofía y Antropología.
• October 1 - University of the Basque Country. Facultad de Educación, Filosofía y Antropología.
• October 2 - Chillida-Leku Museum

September 28

Chillida-Leku Museum

September 29

University of the Basque Country. Facultad de Educación, Filosofía y Antropología.

LINK:  https://ehu.webex.com/ehu/j.php?MTID=m868fd04b076d8822e4d74ad55d3f2ba4

Salón de Grados

09:00-11:00

Chair – Alberto Cordero (City University of New York)

David Wallace (University of Pittsburgh). The Sky is Blue, and other Reasons that Quantum Mechanics is not Underdetermined.

Carl Hoefer (University of Barcelona). Online talk. Physicalism and Fundamental Physics.

11:00-11:30 COFFEE BREAK

Salón de Grados

11:30-13:00

Chair – Andrés Arnau (University of the Basque Country - Donostia International Physics Center)

Special Session with Colloquium

Steen Rasmussen (Center for Fundamental Living Technology / University of Southern Denmark). Emergence of Living Processes from Nonliving Materials.

Colloquium with Professors Álvaro Moreno (University of the Basque Country), Andrés Arnau (University of the Basque Country - Donostia International Physics Center) and Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo (University of the Basque Country).

Salón de Grados

13:00-14:30

Chair – Gotzon Arrizabalaga (University of the Basque Country)

Jordi Mundó Blanch (University of Barcelona). Constituting Freedom: Sovereignty, Agency and Trust.

Sergei Fokin (Escuela Normal No. 3 de Toluca). Chimera of Determinism and Free Will.

Matthew Norris (University of Reading) Online talk. Free Will and Theological Fatalism: A Thomistic-Molinist Response to the Problem of Determined Actions.

Salón de Grados

16:00-17:00

Chair – Alberto Cordero (City University of New York)

Frank Wilczek, Nobel Prize in Physics (College of Liberal Arts and Science. Arizona State University). Online Talk. Complementarity. 

Salón de Grados

17:30-19:00

Chair – Jordi Mundó Blanch (University of Barcelona)

Jan Molina (University of Warsaw). Online talk. Determinism and the Ontological Structure of Free Subjectivity. Towards the Existential and Vitalistic Interpretation of Voltaire's Philosophy.

Yuval Eytan (Tel Aviv University). Online talk. Hobbes on Scientific Happiness.

Eric Bayruns García (California State University). Online talk. Racially-Unjust Contexts, Information-Bearing Acts and Moral Encroachment. 

 

ONLINE Speakers Session (BROADCASTED at Sala de Juntas)

LINK: https://ehu.webex.com/ehu/j.php?MTID=m37ed069d6ac4cd11a70a4059a33b23a0

14:00-16:00 Madrid Time Zone

Chair – Ana-Maria Andrei (Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, USA)

Brian Looper (California Polytechnic State University). How to Define ‘Free Will’.

John Lemos (Coe College). Libertarian Free Will, Luck, and the Deliberative Weightings Model.

Pujarini Das (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur). Free Will and Grace of Divinity.

Oxana Cherkashina (Russian Law Academy). Determinism and the Freedom of Choice (on Frankfurt-style examples).

16:00-17:00 Madrid Time Zone

Chair – Bárbara Jiménez (University of the Basque Country)

Silvia de Bianchi (University of Milan). Agency and Awareness: What is Inderministic or Deterministic?

17:00-19:00 Madrid Time Zone

Chair – Mark Neyrinck (Ikerbasque/University of the Basque Country, Bilbao/DIPC)

Ana-Maria Andrei (Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, USA). Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility for Omissions.

Oxana Cherkashina (Russian Law Academy). "If I were you": Determinism and Moral Responsibility.

Daniel Paul Dal Monte (Rowan University). Kant’s Dual-Character Model of Agency Illuminated by the Notion of Substantial Form.

Jordan Myers (University of Pittsburgh). Dealing with it: The Objective Attitude at a Cost to Human Status.

19:00-20:30 Madrid Time Zone

Chair – Jordan Myers (University of Pittsburgh)

Mark Neyrinck (Ikerbasque/University of the Basque Country, Bilbao/DIPC). Cosmos, Chaos, and Stochasticity in the Cosmos.

Marina Cortês (University of Lisbon, Perimeter Institute). Free Will and the Arrow of Time.

Josephine Papst (Indexicals. Centre for Philosophy, Theory of Science, and Philosophy of Art). Free Will, but no Free Will Entangled Quantum States.

  

September 30

University of the Basque Country. Facultad de Educación, Filosofía y Antropología

 

LINK:  https://ehu.webex.com/ehu-es/j.php?MTID=m9aa0c1f13f0ec5f9b5b714367405d38d

 

Salón de Grados

09:00-11:00

Chair - Víctor Gómez Pin (Autonomous University of Barcelona)

Concha Roldán (CSIC). Determinismo y Libertad en Leibniz.

Javier Echeverría (Jakiunde). Pluralidad de Vacíos: Categorizaciones Leibnicianas del Vacío Cuántico.

 

11:00-11:30 COFFEE BREAK

 

Salón de Grados

11:30-13:30

Chair – Javier Echeverría (Jakiunde)

Elena Partene (ENS Paris). In French. Determinism and Freedom in Kant's Philosophy: An Opposition?

Nathalie Gontier (University of Lisbon). Online talk. On the Self-Causing and Living Earth or how Construction Leads to a Convergence between Epistemology and Ontology. 

 

Sala de Juntas

LINK: https://ehu.webex.com/ehu/j.php?MTID=mbd258627ee861481b2c5c6a780f3de7b

12:30-14:30

Chair – Gotzon Arrizabalaga (University of the Basque Country)

Marco Portillo (Santiago de Compostela University). Una Metafísica para el Pluralismo Científico: Un Enfoque Deflacionario.

Alejandro Romero (Santiago de Compostela University). Pensamiento sin Imagen. Deleuze: Creación y Pensamiento.

Emilio Varela (University of the Basque Country). Cuerpo y Mundo. La Doble Función de la Obra de Arte.

Adrià Porta Caballé (University of Barcelona). Vacío y Clinamen: Posibilidad y Actualización de la Libertad Atomista.

 

Salón de Grados

LINK: https://ehu.webex.com/ehu-es/j.php?MTID=m9aa0c1f13f0ec5f9b5b714367405d38d

16:00-18:00

Chair – Bárbara Jiménez (University of the Basque Country)

Francisco Casadesús (Universitat de les Illes Ballears). Sócrates y los Límites Físicos, Epistemológicos y Teológicos de la Libertad.

José Ignacio Galparsoro (University of the Basque Country). Voluntad Libre y Libre Espíritu en Nietzsche.

 

Salón de Grados

18:00-19:30

Chair – José Ignacio Galparsoro (University of the Basque Country)

Mikel Urdangarin (University of the Basque Country). “Subjektua Egin Egiten Da”: Norbanako Buruaskitik Komunean diren Subjektuetara.

Marta García Rodríguez (University of the Basque Country). El Concepto de “Estilo” como Descriptor para el Análisis Crítico de la Historia de las Ideas Filosóficas.

Joseba Pascual Alba (University of the Basque Country). ¿Por qué Queremos lo que Queremos? La Crítica Spinoziana a la Idea del Libre Albedrío.

October 1

University of the Basque Country. Facultad de Educación, Filosofía y Antropología.

LINK: https://ehu.webex.com/ehu/j.php?MTID=m7fb2b9597d418d947d1e2c6f87a6174c

 

Salón de Grados

09:30-11:00

Chair – Bárbara Jiménez (University of the Basque Country)

Martina Properzi (Pontifical Lateran University of Rome). Online talk. Interaction vs Control: Some Reflections on the Autonomy of Artificial Agents.

Xabier Barandiarán (University of the Basque Country). The Autonomy of Sensorimotor Behaviour. Or the Naturalist Foundations of Free-will as Natural Self-determination.

Íñigo Ongay (Deusto University / Fundación Gustavo Bueno). Is there any Hope for Free Will in Light of the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis? Not a Chance! 

 

11:00-11:30 COFFEE BREAK

 

Salón de Grados

11:30-13:30

Chair – Félix Goñi (University of the Basque Country)

Alberto Cordero (City University of New York). A Functionalist Turn for Selective Realism.

Javier Tejada (University of Barcelona). Some Questions of our Time to be Asked about Future Technologies: The Case of Coronary Stents.

 

Salón de Grados

15:00-17:00

Chair – Alberto Cordero (City University of New York)

Jesús P. Zamora Bonilla (UNED). Why Emergent Levels Will not Save Free Will: A Critique to Christian List's Approach.

Félix Goñi (University of the Basque Country). Occupation: Determinist.

 

Salón de Grados

17:00-18:30

Chair – Íñigo Ongay (Deusto University / Fundación Gustavo Bueno)

Jonas Ciurlionis (Vilnius University). Mathematical Determinism of Pythagorean Ontology.

Kristian Schäferling (Goethe-University Frankfurt). A Modern Philosophical Account of the Relation between Metaphysics, Physics, and the Pre-Socratic physikoi in Derrida and Heidegger.

Kyley Ewing (University of Regina). Freedom in the Block.