Concrete Causation
By Roland Pöllinger
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Description
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.
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1 | CleanVideoWorkshop Concrete Causation: Programme | Actions, Bayes Nets, Causes, Determinism | 7/9/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
2 | CleanVideoWelcome Address (Audio Excerpt) | Workshop "Concrete Causation" | 7/9/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
3 | CleanVideoGraphs as Models of Interventions | Workshop "Concrete Causation" | 7/9/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
4 | CleanVideoModelling Experimental Interventions: Results and Challenges | Workshop "Concrete Causation" | 7/9/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
5 | CleanVideoCausation in Physics | Workshop "Concrete Causation" | 7/9/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
6 | CleanVideoThe Causal Chain Problem | Workshop "Concrete Causation" | 7/9/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
7 | CleanVideoCausality and Observational Equivalence of Deterministic and Indeterministic Descriptions | Workshop "Concrete Causation" | 7/9/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
8 | CleanVideoA Ranking-theoretic Account of Causation | Workshop "Concrete Causation" | 7/9/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
9 | CleanVideoComputing Non-Causal Knowledge for Causal Reasoning | MCMP Workshop on Computational Metaphysics | 6/12/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
10 | CleanVideoDisentangling Nets for Causal Inference | DGPhil Workshop on Mathematical Philosophy | 9/15/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
11 | CleanVideoThe Mind-Brain Entanglement | MCMP Colloquium for Mathematical Philosophy | 5/24/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
12 | CleanVideoUnifying Causal and Non-Causal Knowledge | MCMP Workshop Bridges 2014 | 10/19/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
13 | CleanVideoProbabilistic Causal Inference from Heterogeneous Evidence | Workshop on "Mechanisms in Medicine" | 3/13/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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