Program – CLDE

Sep 8^th
1-2	registration
2-2:15	welcome
2:15-3:15	William Wimsatt (University of Chicago): Patterns of causation in complex adaptive systems
3:15-3:30	short break
3:30-4	Barbara Osimani (University of Camerino): The challenges of context-specific causality and the virtues of evidence amalgamation: grading causality rather than evidence
4-4:30	Maria Kronfeldner (Universität Bielefeld): A view from the kaleidoscopic: How behavioral scientists deal with explanatory complexity

4:30-5	coffee break

5-5:30	Alessio Moneta (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna): Causal inference in empirical economics: how to cope with complexity?
5:30-6	Genaro Sucarrat (BI Norwegian Business School): Economic causality as a reduction
6-6:15	short break
6:15-7:15	Laura Franklin-Hall (New York University): The Possibility of Biology

Sep 9^th

9-10	Álvaro Moreno (University of the Basque Country): Control as causation in biological systems
10-10:15	short break
10:15-10:45	Holly Andersen (Simon Fraser University): Information as a tool to model causal complexity
10:45-11:15	James Thorniley (University of Sussex): The strength of weak coupling: The misapplication of information theory to causal strength

11:15-11:45	coffee break

11:45-12:15	Wolfgang Pietsch (Technische Universität München): The prospects of data-intensive science for dealing with causal complexity
12:15-12:45	Philippe Huneman & Martin Schuele (IHPST Paris): Updating Occam’s razor: computational complexity, causal processes and the laws of nature

12:45-2:30	lunch break

2:30-3	Sara Matera (University of Urbino): Crossed studies of causal attribution for complex systems: the case of climate change
3-3:30	Rosa Runhardt (London School of Economics): Refining process-tracing, a mechanism-based epistemic strategy for dealing with causal complexity in the social sciences
3:30-4	Veli-Pekka Parkkinen (University of Oslo): Causal modularity and the explanation of complex systems

4-4:30	coffee break

4:30-5	Lorenzo Casini (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy): How to model mechanisms
5-6	Meinard Kuhlmann (University of Bremen): Structural Mechanisms in Economics and Physics
7:30	conference dinner

Sep 10^th

10:15-10:45	Toby Friend & Phyllis Illari (University College London): Cause and constitution in complex physical systems
10:45-11:15	Olivier Sartenaer (Columbia University): Failing to trace the causal and constitutive chains in Complex systems as a unificatory criterion for diachronic and synchronic emergence

11:15-11:45	coffee break

11:45-12:15	Mike Joffe (Imperial College London): Causal links, systems and complexity
12:15-12:45	Carlos Zednik (University of Osnabrück): Systems, networks, and mechanistic explanations in neuroscience

12:45-2:30	lunch break

2:30-3	Daniel Kostic (University of Belgrade): Does network analysis provide a novel kind of topological explanations in life and brain sciences?
3-3:30	Maria Cerezo (University of Murcia): Genes as causal powers
3:30-4	Samuli Pöyhönen (University of Helsinki): Sidestepping complexity: rational analysis explanations in cognitive science

4-4:30	coffee break

4:30-5	Nicole Perret (École normale supérieure): Biological organization and causality: a constructivist approach
5-6	Gry Oftedal (University of Oslo): Causal Specificity in Biological Systems

Sep 11^th

9-10	Mara Harrell (Carnegie Mellon University): Inferring The Explanatory Role of Causal Models in Complex Systems
10-10:15	short break
10:15-10:45	Julian Reiss (Durham University): Causality, Complexity, and Carcinogenesis
10:45-11:15	Izamna Fuentes (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México): Inferring Causation in Epidemiology: Causal Discovery and Complexity

11:15-11:45	coffee break

11:45-12:45	Paul Humphreys (University of Virginia): Inferring The Explanatory Role of Causal Models in Complex Systems