INSTITUT FÜR PHILOSOPHIE

Workshop: Semantics and Pragmatics of Ceteris Paribus Conditions

Nancy Cartwright (LSE): When Causal Laws are Fit for Use

Alice Drewery (Reading): Ceteris Paribus Clauses and the Division of Linguistic Labour

Andreas Hüttemann (Cologne): Ceteris Paribus Laws in Physics

Bernhard Nickel (Harvard): The Role of Kinds in CP-Laws

Jeff Pelletier (Alberta, SFU Vancouver): Reasoning with Defaults: Generic Statements and Ceteris Paribus Restrictions

Alexander Reutlinger (Cologne): Against Statistical Accounts of Special Science Laws

Markus Schrenk (Cologne): Better Best Systems and the Issues of Ceteris Paribus Laws

Gerhard Schurz (Düsseldorf): Ceteris Paribus and Ceteris Rectis Laws: the Problems of Content and Accidentality

Wolfgang Spohn (Konstanz): A Ranking-Theoretic Account of Ceteris Paribus Conditions

Michael Strevens (NYU): Ceteris Paribus Hedges: Causal Voodoo That Works

Matthias Unterhuber (Düsseldorf): Less Lazy than We Might Think – Ceteris Paribus Conditions in the Context of Lewis´ Best System Analysis

Brad Weslake (Rochester): Statistical Mechanical Imperialism