Symposium: The Philosophy of Clark Glymour
Abstract: Clark Glymour is a key figure in philosophy of science since decades. In particular, his philosophical contributions to causation and (probabilistic) modeling of scientific inquiry shaped the discussion in the respective fields. The present symposium focuses on Clark Glymour's philosophy. First, Clark Glymour will give a taste of his present philosophical enterprise in a keynote lecture. Then, further speakers will discuss individual aspects of his philosophy.
Date: June 13 - June 15, 2013
Place: Building 23.21, Floor 0, Room HS 3F (Keynote Lecture) & Building 16.11, Floor 1, Sitzungssaal 1 (Symposium)
Organizers: Matthias Unterhuber, Alexander Gebharter, and Gerhard Schurz
Presenters include: Clark Glymour (CMU, Pittsburgh), Frederick Eberhardt (CMU, Pittsburgh), Alexander Gebharter (Düsseldorf), York Hagmayer (Göttingen), Stephan Hartmann (LMU, Munich), Vera Hoffmann-Kolss (Cologne), Conor Mayo-Wilson (LMU, Munich), Paul Näger (Bremen), Gerhard Schurz (Düsseldorf), Matthias Unterhuber (Düsseldorf) and Sylvia Wenmackers (Groningen).
Abstracts: You can find the Abstracts of the talks here.
Keynote Lecture by Clark Glymour (June 13, 18:30 – 20:00, Building 23.21, Floor 0, Room HS 3F): "Brain Troubles" Abstract (pdf)
The invited talks will take place on June 14, 09:00 - 17:30, and June 15, 09:00 - 12:30 (Building 16.11, Floor 1, Sitzungssaal 1).
Travel information (pdf)
Poster (pdf)
Clark Glymour Fellowship at the DCLPS. (including further talks by Clark Glymour, link)
The workshop is organized as part of the DFG (German Research Foundation) research group FOR 1063 Causation, Laws, Disposition, and Explanation at the Interface of Science and Metaphysics.
Attendance is open to all. If you plan to attend, please contact us: dclps@phil.hhu.de
Schedule
Thursday, June 13th | (Keynote Lecture, Building 23.21, Floor 0, Room HS 3F) | |||
18.30-20.00 | Clark Glymour (CMU, Pittsburgh): Brain Troubles | |||
Friday, June 14th | (Invited Talks, Building 16.11,Floor 1, Sitzungssaal 1) | |||
09.15-10.15 | Gerhard Schurz (Düsseldorf) & Alexander Gebharter (Düsseldorf): Causality as a Theoretical Concept | |||
10.15-11.15 | Frederick Eberhardt (CMU, Pittsburgh): The Search for Causes | |||
11.15-12-15 | Vera Hoffmann-Kolss (Cologne): Actual Causation and Causal Intuitions | |||
14.15-15.15 | Matthias Unterhuber (Düsseldorf): Does Formal Learning Espouse Laws of Nature, Ceteris Paribus? | |||
15.15-16.15 | Sylvia Wenmackers (Groningen): On Glymour´s Problem of Old Evidence: A New Theory for Theory Change | |||
16.15-17.15 | Stephan Hartmann (LMU, Munich): New Solutions to the Old Evidence Problem | |||
Saturday, June15th | (Invited Talks, Building 16.11, Floor 1, Sitzungssaal 1) | |||
09.15-10.15 | Paul Näger (Bremen): Causal Unfaithfulness and Quantum Experiments | |||
10.15-11.15 | York Hagmayer (Göttingen): Causal Bayes Nets in the Psychology of Causal Learning and Reasoning: Theoretical Inspirations and Empirical Challenges | |||
11.15-12.15 | Conor Mayo-Wilson (LMU, Munich): When is Clark Glymour´s Brain like a Planet? Causation on "Macro" and "Micro" Scales |