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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