Friday, 21st September

09.15 – 09.30 Arrival

09.30 – 10.45 Benedikt Kahmen (University of Aachen)
Causal Explanations of Action

10.45 – 11.15 Coffee

11.15 – 12.30 Alyssa Ney (University of Rochester)
Fundamental and Derivative Causation

12.30 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 15.15 Gerhard Müller-Strahl (University of Münster)
Explaining Organismic Phenomena in Scientifically Based Medicine

15.15 – 15.45 Coffee

15.45 – 17.00 Markus Schrenk (University of Cologne)
Better Best Systems and the Issue of cp-Laws in the Special Sciences

17.00 – 17.30 Coffee

17.30 – 18.45 Huw Price (University of Cambridge)
Retrocausality – what would it take?

Saturday, 22nd September

09.30 – 10.45 Andreas Hüttemann (University of Cologne)
Why Laws (or Dispositions) are More Basic than Causal Structure 10.45 – 11.15 Coffee

11.15 – 12.30 Jenann Ismael (University of Arizona)
Why Causal Structure is More Basic than Global Laws

12.30 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 15.15 Sandra Mitchell (University of Pittsburgh)
Biological laws: contingency and stability