Causation, Explanation, Conditionals (21-23 June 2017)
Idea and Motivation
The analysis of causation and explanation has served as a major motivation for investigating conditionals, developing conditional logics, Bayesian networks, ranking theory, Ramsey Tests, and possible worlds semantics. This analysis, consequently, has evolved into a very fruitful and proliferating research program employing various logical and probabilistic approaches. The overarching objective of this conference is to bring together people working on and with conditional analyses of causation and explanation.
Announcement
The Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN) invites the participants of CEC17 to join their retreat at the Evangelische Akademie. They provide us with the options to attend one or both of the following events on June 20.
- At 17:00, Prof. Michael Wibral (Goethe University Frankfurt) talks on "Information Transfer and Causal Interactions — Conceptual Differences and Combined Analyses Strategies“.
- At 19:00, Roland Poellinger (MCMP/LMU) provides an introductory tutorial on "Modeling Cause and Effect — Philosophical and Computational Aspects“.
The participants of CEC17 are most welcome to join those events accompanied by a dinner at the Ev. Akademie at 18:00. If you want to join for Prof. Wibral’s talk, please arrive around 16:30. The registration at the reception takes a few minutes and out of respect for Prof. Wibral and BCCN you should not enter the lecture hall late.
Program
Day 1 (21 June 2017)
| Time | Event |
|---|
| 08:45 - 09:00 |
Opening Statement
Chair: Mario Günther |
| 09:00 - 10:30 |
Joseph Halpern: Actual Causality: A Survey
Chair: Mario Günther |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 12:15 |
William Penny: Dynamic Causal Modeling
Chair: Andreas Herz |
| 12:15 - 13:00 |
Benjamin Eva & Reuben Stern: Causal Explanatory Power
Chair: Karolina Krzyżanowska |
| 13:00 - 14:00 |
Lunch Break |
| 14:00 - 15:15 |
Stefan Glasauer: On Causality. A Neuroscience Perspective
Chair: William Penny |
| 15:15 - 15:45 |
Coffee Break |
| 15:45 - 16:30 |
Thomas Blanchard: Explanatory Levels and the Goldilocks Problem: Interventionism Gets Things Just Right
Chair: Franz Huber |
| 16:30 - 17:15 |
Atoosa Kasirzadeh: Non-Causal and Mathematics-Based Explanations
Chair: Franz Huber |
| 18:00 |
Dinner (Evangelische Akademie) |
Day 2 (22 June 2017)
| Time | Event |
|---|
| 09:00 - 10:15 |
Wolfgang Spohn: The Transitivity of Causation
Chair: Katrin Schulz |
| 10:15 - 10:45 |
Coffee Break |
| 10:45 - 12:00 |
Franz Huber: The Modality Underlying Causality
Chair: Reuben Stern |
| 12:00 - 12:45 |
Neil McDonnell: Causation’s Two Masters
Chair: Reuben Stern |
| 12:45 - 14:00 |
Lunch Break |
| 14:00 - 15:15 |
Holger Andreas: Causation as Production
Chair: Stephan Hartmann |
| 15:15 - 16:00 |
Toby Friend: A Nomological Analysis of Causation
Chair: Stephan Hartmann |
| 16:00 - 16:30 |
Coffee Break |
| 16:30 - 17:45 |
Gerhard Schurz: The Theory of Causal Bayes Nets and Its Empirical Content
Chair: Wolfgang Spohn |
| 18:30 |
Conference Dinner |
Day 3 (23 June 2017)
| Time | Event |
|---|
| 09:00 - 10:15 |
Hans Rott: If Oswald had not killed Kennedy
Chair: Atoosa Kasirzadeh |
| 10:15 - 10:45 |
Coffee Break |
| 10:45 - 12:00 |
Karolina Krzyżanowska: Odd Conditionals and the Limits of Pragmatic Explanations
Chair: Holger Andreas |
| 12:00 - 12:45 |
Noah van Dongen, M. Sikorski & J. Sprenger: Causal Strength, Tendency Causal Claims, and Indicative Conditionals
Chair: Holger Andreas |
| 12:45 - 14:00 |
Lunch Break |
| 14:00 - 15:15 |
Katrin Schulz: An Interventionist Approach to Conditionals: Some Linguistic Applications
Chair: Hans Rott |
| 15:15 - 15:45 |
Coffee Break |
| 15:45 - 17:00 |
Stephan Hartmann: Bayesian Argumentation
Chair: Mario Günther |
| 17:00 - 17:15 |
Final Words
Chair: Mario Günther |
Acknowledgement
The conference is generously supported by the Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences (GSN), the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN), and the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP).
Photo Credits
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