Podcasts about concrete causation

Concrete Causation beschäftigt sich mit Theorien der Verursachung, ihrer Interpretation und ihrer Einbettung in metaphysisch-ontologische Fragestellungen sowie der Anwendung solcher Theorien in naturwissenschaftlichem und entscheidungstheoretischem Kontext. Die Arbeit gliedert sich in vier Kapitel, die eine historisch-systematische Verortung der zentralen Probleme vornehmen (Kapitel 1), um dann eine begriffliche und technische Darstellung der Theorien von David Lewis und Judea Pearl zu liefern (Kapitel 2). Der mathematisch-technische Rahmen von Pearl (in Bayes'schen Netzen) wird nach philosophisch motivierten begrifflichen Überlegungen für eine epistemische Interpretation von Kausalität und in einer Erweiterung des interventionistischen Ansatzes für die Betonung des wissensordnenden Aspekts von Kausalrelationen herangezogen (Kapitel 3). Die Integration von kausalem und nicht-kausalem Wissen in einheitlichen Strukturen stellt einen Ansatz zur Lösung von Problemen der (kausalen) Entscheidungstheorie dar und ermöglicht gleichzeitig die Abbildung von logisch-mathematischen, synonymischen sowie reduktiven Zusammenhängen in operationalisierbaren Netzen der Belief Propagation (Kapitel 4).

Charlotte Werndl (Oxford) presents her results on "Causality and Observational Equivalence of Deterministic and Indeterministic Descriptions" (workshoo "Concrete Causation", 9 July 2010).

Professor Wolfgang Spohn (Konstanz) presents his ranking-theoretic account of causation as keynote speaker at the LMU workshop "Concrete Causation" (9 July, 2010). [Due to technical problems the recording begins with the second slide.]

In this talk at the LMU workshop "Concrete Causation" (9 July, 2010) Michael Baumgartner (Konstanz) discusses "The Causal Chain Problem"

In this talk Mathias Frisch (University of Maryland and Humboldt scholar at LMU Munich) critically examines a range of general arguments for the view that causal notions have an important place in the special sciences and discusses a case of causal modeling in physics - linear response theory (workshop "Concrete Causation", 9 July, 2010).

Professor C. Ulises Moulines (LMU Munich, Seminar for Philosophy, Logic and Philosophy of Science) opens the LMU workshop "Concrete Causation" (9 July, 2010) with his Welcome Address to an audience of various disciplines; this is an audio excerpt - download the full welcome address as a PDF from the workshop's website

In this talk Roland Poellinger (Munich) gives an outline of Judea Pearl's deterministic approach towards causation (workshop "Concrete Causation", 9 July, 2010). The title of the talk is taken from the programmatic section 2.2 of Pearl's paper "Causal Diagrams for Empirical Research" (Biometrika, Vol. 82, No. 4, 669-709, 1995) which is briefly sketched and commented on as an introduction to Pearl's interventionist account of causal analysis. Further topics: The problems of simple causal networks, interventions as variables, Humphreys' paradox, and causal decision making.

In this talk at the LMU workshop "Concrete Causation" (9 July, 2010) Jan-Willem Romeijn (Groningen) discusses probabilistic models of experimental intervention, and shows that such models elucidate the intuition that observations following intervention are more informative than observations per se (due to technical problems about one minute of the recording is skipped)

The poster of the workshop "Concrete Causation" (9 July, 2010) with all speakers, times, chairs, and breaks