Time and venue: 8-9 January 2024, AKC, Husova 4a, 110 00, Praha 1 Czech republic.
The Workshop is Funded by The Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion (IRC), Oxford University, and Faculty of Arts, Charles University.
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
Amit Pundik (Tel Aviv University): Bergon’s Unpredictable Freedom in Court: The Case of Predictive Evidence in Legal Fact-finding
The programme can be downloaded here: