Causation vs. constitution: loosening the friction
This conference brought together scholars working on the conceptual and methodological interplay between causal and constitutional dependencies, with the aim of making progress in resolving the apparent tension between these two modes of explanation, discovery, and modeling. See link to abstracts, below the schedule, to have a look what took place.
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Program | |
Mon 3 Dec | |
9:00-10:00 | Bert Leuridan (University of Antwerp) - 'Constitution versus causation - what after the Redux?' |
10:00-10:20 | coffee break |
10:20-11:20 | Maria Serban (Technische Universität Berlin) - 'Reconstruction (not interlevel) experiments' |
11:20-12:20 | Peter Fazekas (University of Antwerp and AarhusUniversity) - 'Fat hands are not that fat in a flat world: Constitution and mutual manipulability in flat mechanisms' |
12:20-14:00 | lunch break |
14:00-15:00 | Markus Eronen (University of Groningen) - 'Discovering constitutive relevance through interventions: Obstacles and challenges' |
15:00-15:20 | coffee break |
15:20-16:20 | Beate Krickel (Ruhr University Bochum) - 'Mechanistic constitution - How many relations?' |
16:20-17:20 | Daniel Malinsky (Johns Hopkins University) - 'Learning about changes to causal structure' |
Tue 4 Dec | |
9:00-10:00 | Alexander Gebharter (University of Groningen) and Jens Harbecke (Witten/Herdecke University) - 'Constitutive relevance discovery without interventions: Boole meets Bayes' |
10:00-10:20 | coffee break |
10:20-11:20 | Mark Couch (Seton Hall University) - 'How to model determination relations with INUS conditions' |
11:20-12:20 | Jiji Zhang (Lingnan University) - 'Structural equation models with both causation and constitution' |
12:20-14:00 | lunch break |
14:00-15:00 | Frederick Eberhardt (CalTech) - 'Causal macro variables' |
15:00-15:20 | coffee break |
15:20-16:20 | David Kinney (LSE) - 'Pragmatic causal feature learning' |
16:20-17:20 | Alessio Moneta (Scuola Superiore Sant'anna) - 'Independent components and the causation-constitution distinction' |
Organizers: Michael Baumgartner (Bergen), Lorenzo Casini (Geneva), Veli-Pekka Parkkinen (Bergen)
Relevant links
24.06.2019