October
Monday 9 October - Tuesday 10 October
Pluralism and Causality
PROGRAMME
For those interested in attending the conference please contact: d.j.fennell@lse.ac.uk |
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Monday, 9th October
10:15 - 10:45
10:45 - 12:00
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Coffee, Welcome
Maria Carla Galavotti
Department of Philosophy
University of Bologna
Some Remarks on Causality and Context
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12:00 - 13:30
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Lunch Break
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13:30 - 14:45
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Francis Longworth
Department of Philosophy
University of Ohio, University of Birmingham
Causation as a Polysemous Cluster Concept
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15:00 - 16:15
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Philip Dawid
Department of Statistical Science
University College London
Probabilistic Causality
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16:30 - 17:45
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Sandra Mitchell
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
University of Pittsburgh
Complex Causality in Biology
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Tuesday, 10th October
09:00 - 10:15
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Damien Fennell
Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science
London School of Economics
Limits of Causes from Structure: Thoughts from Econometrics
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10:30 - 11:45
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John Norton
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
University of Pittsburgh
Causation as Folk Science
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11:45 - 13:30
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David Papineau
Department of Philosophy
Kings College London
The Insignificance of Manipulation
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Venue: Room T206 (Lakatos Building)
Thursday, 19 October 12:30 - 2:00 pm
FORUM FOR EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY
DIALOGUES
Miranda Fricker and Adrian Moore
Wednesday, 25 October 4:00 - 5:30pm
CONTINGENCY AND DISSENT IN SCIENCE - INVITED SPEAKER
Menno Rol
University of Groningen, Netherlands
Distinguishing Idealization from Abstraction: What it Means for the Policy Relevance of Social Research
Monday, 30 October 5:00-6:30 pm (Tea at 4:45 in T116)
THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Otávio Bueno
University of Miami
Microscopic Vision?
November
Thursday 16 November, 2:00-5:00 pm (Vera Anstey Room)
POLICY SEMINAR
Rajiv Prabhakar
CPNSS and
Adele Atkinson
Bristol University
The Child Trust Fund: Evidence From Policy Studies
December
Monday, 4 December 5:00-6:30 pm (Tea at 4:45 in T116)
THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Francesco Guala
University of Exeter
Experimental Social Ontology