Workshop on Causation, Dependence, and Regularity
The workshop aims to explore questions related to regularity accounts and difference-making accounts of causation.
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Workshop on Causation, Dependence, and Regularity
Thursday the 17th of August
09:15-09:30 Coffee
09:30-10:45 Samuel Lee (Linköping University): Overdetermination Overdiagnosed
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-12:15 Torfinn Huvenes (University of Bergen): A Puzzle about Causation and Impure Sets
12:15-13:45 Lunch
13:45-15:00 Caroline Touborg (Umeå University): Is causal proportionality best understood in terms of counterfactual dependence or minimal sufficiency?
15:00-15:15 Break
15:15-16:30 Bram Vaassen (Umeå University): Lewis’ ‘Causation’ 50 years on: Hume strikes back
Workshop Dinner: Time and Place TBD
Friday the 19th of August
09:15-09:30: Coffee
09:30-10:45 Michael Baumgartner (University of Bergen): Boolean Difference-Making: A Modern Regularity Theory of Causation
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-12:15 Veli-Pekka Parkkinen (University of Bergen): Unique identifiability assumptions in philosophy and methods of causal enquiry
12:15-13:45 Lunch
13:45-15:00 Luna De Souter (University of Bergen): Regularity theory of causation beyond causal uniqueness
15:00-15:15 Break
15:15-16:30 Naftali Weinberger (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich): Homeostasis and the Faithless Foundations of Causal Inference
Workshop Dinner: Time and Place TBD
