Concrete Causation
von Roland Pöllinger
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Beschreibung
In his study of causation J. L. Mackie once referred back to David Hume, who listed causation among one of the principles that are TO US THE CEMENT OF THE UNIVERSE and thus OF VAST CONSEQUENCE IN THE SCIENCE OF HUMAN NATURE (David Hume, AN ABSTRACT OF A “TREATISE OF HUMAN NATURE”). Yet for example the early endeavours of the developers of the Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) framework, which aimed at embedding causal meaning into the formal treatment, seem to be neglected, and David Lewis' counterfactual analysis of causation based on his possible worlds semantics does not come very handy for application. As Judea Pearl summarises: WE ARE WITNESSING ONE OF THE MOST BIZARRE CIRCLES IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE: CAUSALITY IN SEARCH OF A LANGUAGE AND, SIMULTANEOUSLY, THE LANGUAGE OF CAUSALITY IN SEARCH OF ITS MEANING (Judea Pearl, CAUSALITY, 2000). Borrowing mathematical rigour from statistics, one of the most prominent areas of causal modelling today sounds out the interaction of probabilistic and deterministic approaches and is centred around Bayesian Networks, through which causal notions can be identified concretely and utilised for various disciplines eventually.
| Name | Beschreibung | Erschienen | Preis | ||
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| 1 | VideoWorkshop Concrete Causation: Programme | The poster of the workshop "Concrete Causation" with all speakers, times, chairs, and breaks | 8.7.10 | Kostenlos | In iTunes ansehen |
| 2 | VideoWelcome Address (Audio Excerpt) | Professor C. Ulises Moulines (LMU Munich, Seminar for Philosophy, Logic and Philosophy of Science) opens the LMU workshop "Concrete Causation" with his Welcome Address to an audience of various disciplines; this is an audio excerpt - download the full welcome address as PDF from the workshop's website | 1.8.10 | Kostenlos | In iTunes ansehen |
| 3 | VideoGraphs as Models of Interventions | In this talk Roland Poellinger (Munich) gives an outline of Judea Pearl's deterministic approach towards causation. The title of the talk is taken from the programmatic section 2.2 of Pearl's paper "Causal Diagrams for Empirical Research" (Biometrika, Vol. 82, No. 4, 669-709, 1995) which is briefly sketched and commented on as an introduction to Pearl's interventionist account of causal analysis. Further topics: The problems of simple causal networks, interventions as variables, Humphreys' paradox, and causal decision making. | 2.8.10 | Kostenlos | In iTunes ansehen |
| 4 | VideoModelling Experimental Interventions: Results and Challenges | In this talk at the LMU workshop "Concrete Causation" Jan-Willem Romeijn (Groningen) discusses probabilistic models of experimental intervention, and shows that such models elucidate the intuition that observations following intervention are more informative than observations per se (due to technical problems about one minute of the recording is skipped) | 6.8.10 | Kostenlos | In iTunes ansehen |
| 5 | VideoCausation in Physics | In this talk Mathias Frisch (University of Maryland and Humboldt scholar at LMU Munich) critically examines a range of general arguments for the view that causal notions have an important place in the special sciences and discusses a case of causal modeling in physics - linear response theory | 12.7.10 | Kostenlos | In iTunes ansehen |
| 6 | VideoThe Causal Chain Problem | In this talk at the LMU workshop "Concrete Causation" Michael Baumgartner (Konstanz) discusses "The Causal Chain Problem" | 12.7.10 | Kostenlos | In iTunes ansehen |
| 7 | VideoCausality and Observational Equivalence of Deterministic and Indeterministic Descriptions | Charlotte Werndl (Oxford) presents her results on "Causality and Observational Equivalence of Deterministic and Indeterministic Descriptions" | 19.7.10 | Kostenlos | In iTunes ansehen |
| 8 | VideoA Ranking-theoretic Account of Causation | Professor Wolfgang Spohn (Konstanz) presents his ranking-theoretic account of causation as keynote speaker at the LMU workshop "Concrete Causation" (due to technical problems the recording begins with the second slide) | 22.7.10 | Kostenlos | In iTunes ansehen |
| 9 | VideoComputing Non-Causal Knowledge for Causal Reasoning | Roland Poellinger (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy/LMU Munich) gives a talk at the MCMP Workshop on Computational Metaphysics titled "Computing Non-Causal Knowledge for Causal Reasoning". | 11.6.11 | Kostenlos | In iTunes ansehen |
| 10 | VideoDisentangling Nets for Causal Inference | As part of the MCMP group presentation at the DGPhil XXII Workshop on Mathematical Philosophy Roland Poellinger (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy/LMU Munich) gives a mini presentation titled "Disentangling Nets for Causal Inference". | 13.9.11 | Kostenlos | In iTunes ansehen |
| Insgesamt: 10 Folgen |
