Pre-reflective Agency conference

Name: Pre-reflective Agency conference
Start: 2023-06-29T08:30
End: 2023-06-29T17:45
Location: Edgbaston Park Hotel 53 Edgbaston Park Road Birmingham B15 2RS

Location: Edgbaston Park Hotel 53 Edgbaston Park Road Birmingham B15 2RS

Dates: Thursday 29 June 2023 (08:30-17:45)

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‘The piecemeal business’ constitutive of our ethical lives

The overarching aim of this conference is to advance our understanding of the role played by pre-reflective agency within our ethical lives. Explicitly cross-disciplinary, this conference is organised around four sub-themes:

Habit changeability (and its relationship to perceived affordances)
Pre-reflective convictions of [in]appropriateness and implicit normativity
The digital mediation of everyday habits and modes of agency
Moulding the infrastructure that moulds our habits: design interventions (this includes, but is not limited to, data-reliant infrastructure)

Conference Programme

Note: the papers for each panel will be circulated in advance with the expectation that all members of the panel will have read the papers in advance, to allow for shorter presentations (10 mins) and longer, interactive discussions.

8.30am: Welcome coffee and registration

9am: Opening Remarks

9.05am: Panel 1: Habit Changeability and its relationship to perceived affordances

Professor Janna van Grunsven (TU Delft, Netherlands) - Inter-personal Identity-Exploration, Social Media Platforms, and the Impoverishment of Teenagers’ Field of Affordances
Professor Tom McClelland (University of Cambridge) - Objectification and Affordance Perception
Professor Julian Kiverstein (University of Amsterdam) - The Puzzle of Expert Action_ Explaining the Situated Performance of Skills
Professor Joel Krueger (University of Exeter) - Loneliness, social agency, and (non-)recognition_ some lessons from psychopathology
Dr Joshua Bergamin (University of Vienna) - Habitually Breaking Habits (Musical) Improvisation and Ethics

10.55 to 11.25am: Coffee break

11.25am: Panel 2: The digital mediation of everyday habits and pre-reflective agencies

Professor Carolyn Pedwell (University of Kent) - Intuition as a “Trained Thing”_ Sensing, Thinking, and Speculating in Computational Cultures
Professor Rebecca Coleman (University of Bristol) - ‘Re’s and ‘pre’s: Digital mediation, temporality, habit
Professor Lubomira Radoilska (University of Kent) - The Habits of Busyness
Thijs Heijmeskamp (Erasmus University Rotterdam) - Situation, habit, and action_ explaining agency

1pm: Buffet lunch

2pm: Panel 3: Moulding the infrastructure that moulds our habits

Professor Mireille Hildebrandt (VUB, Belgium,) - Moulding the infrastructure that moulds our habits
Professor Sylvie Delacroix (University of Birmingham, Law) - Instrumentalised at our peril
Professor Chris Baber (University of Birmingham, Computer Science)
Huma Namal (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay) and Khalil Kansou (University of Barcelona) - Changing Habits and Habitat. A pre-reflective approach to implicit biases

3.30pm: Tea break

4pm: Panel 4: Pre-reflective convictions of [in]appropriateness and implicit normativity

Chair: Professor Maks Del Mar (Queen Mary University of London)
Professor Joao Bachur (Brazilian Institute of Education, Development and Research) - Pre-Reflective Convictions of (In)Appropriateness and Implicit Normativity
Professor Georgios Pavlakos (University of Glasgow) - Contenders for legal normativity_ Implicitness vs Intelligibility
Professor Margaret Martin (Western University, Canada) - Reflections on Euthyphro and Habitual Ethics. The Ethical Importance of Self-Doubt and Attention to Particulars
Larissa Kolias (University of Calgary) - Psychiatric Diagnostic Reasoning_ A Deweyan Account of Second-Person Knowing

5.45pm: Closing remarks followed by drinks reception