Cologne
6-7 December 2013
Main Building, Neuer Senatssaal
Day 1 | Friday | December 6
9:15 Welcome
9:30 – 10:45 Marc Lange (University of North Carolina)
Aspects of Mathematical Explanation
11:00 – 12:15 Laura Felline (University of Louvain)
Mechanisms Meet Structural Explanation
12:15 – 13:45 Lunch Break
13:45 – 15:00 Andreas Hüttemann (University of Cologne)
Part-whole Explanation
15:15 – 16:30 Mazviita Chirimuuta (University of Pittsburgh)
Efficient Coding Explanations in Neuroscience
16:45 – 18:00 Matteo Colombo (Tilburg University), Stephan Hartmann (LMU Munich) and Jan Sprenger (Tilburg University)
A Bayesian Account of Explanatory Reasoning
Day 2 | Saturday | December 7
9:30 – 10:45 Benjamin Schnieder (University of Hamburg)
Causes and Becauses
11:00 – 12:15 Siegfried Jaag (University of Luxembourg)
Do laws really explain their instances?
12:15 – 13:45 Lunch Break
13:45 – 15:00 Juha Saatsi (University of Leeds)
Worthwhile distinctions: Kinematic, dynamic, (non-)causal
15:15 – 16:30 Alexander Reutlinger (University of Cologne / LMU Munich)
How To Make A Non-causal Difference
16:45 – 18:00 Brad Skow (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
A Strategy for Resisting Alleged Examples of Non-Causal Explanation
To register please contact Alexander Reutlinger:
Alexander.Reutlinger@lrz.uni-muenchen.de