Time and venue: 8-9 January 2024, AKC, Husova 4a, 110 00, Praha 1 Czech republic.

Programme

Monday, January 8:

10:00 – 10:50

Mark Sinclair (Queen’s University Belfast): Retroactive freedom

11:10 – 12:00

Joël Dolbeault (Charles-de-Gaulle University, Lille, France): Incompatibilism without Alternative Possibilities: Bergson in the Debate on Free Will

14:00 – 14:50

Pavel Arazim (Charles University, Prague; Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague): Rules in motion: rule-following with Bergson and Wittgenstein

15:10 – 16:00

Yoann Malinge (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium): Being the cause of one’s actions. Examining the free action in Bergson’s philosophy

16:30 – 18:00: Book Session

Matyáš Moravec (University of Saint Andrews, United Kingdom): Henri Bergson and the philosophy of religion. God, Freedom, and Duration (Routledge 2023). Commentators: Yasushi Hirai and Mark Sinclair.

Tuesday, January 9:

10:00 – 10:50

Jakub Čapek (Charles University, Prague): Freedom as Hesitation. Henri Bergson in the Light of the Phenomenological Criticism

11:10 – 12:00

Yasushi Hirai (Keio University, Japan): How Freedom Originates from Closure: Through the Bergsonian Lens of Tense, Aspect, and Modality

12:20 – 13:10

Paola Marrati (Johns Hopkins University): Bergson and the Fragility of Democratic Societies

Abstracts are available here

The Workshop is Funded by The Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion (IRC), Oxford University, and  Faculty of Arts, Charles University.

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