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Causation, Explanation, and Everything Else: Celebrating the Career of James F. Woodward

November 4, 2022 @ 9:00 am - November 5, 2022 @ 5:00 pm EDT

The Center for the Philosophy of Science is organizing a workshop to celebrate the distinguished career of Professor James W. Woodward on November 4th and 5th 2022.  This is the weekend before PSA2022 being held in Pittsburgh as well.
Jim Woodward was Professor at Cal Tech for many years and moved to Pittsburgh in 2010.  He is the author of numerous papers and two books: Making Things Happen: A Theory of Causal Explanation,  2003 (OUP) which won the Lakatos Award in 2005.  More recently he has published Causation with a Human Face: Normative Theory and Descriptive Psychology, 2021 (OUP).
The workshop is open to all, and we invite you to join us in celebrating Jim’s distinguished career.
Conference Speakers:
1. Jenn Jhun (Duke University)
2. JiJi Zhang (Hong Kong Baptist University)
3. Lauren Ross (University of California, Irvine)
4. Porter Williams (USC and University of Pittsburgh)
5. Daniel Hausman (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
6. Philip Kitcher (Columbia University)

 

Current Schedule (subject to change):

Friday, November 4th

9:00am – Coffee and light continental breakfast available –  Cathedral of Learning 1117

9:25-9:30am Opening remarks by Michael Dietrich – Cathedral of Learning Room 1008

9:30-10:45am JiJi Zhang, “Intervention, Regularity, and Postulates of Simplicity in Causal Modelling” -CL 1008

11:00am-12:15pm, Lauren Ross, “Interventionism and Its (Causal) Influence” – CL 1008

 Break 

2:00-3:15pm, Jenn Jhun, “Causes and Counterfactuals: Interventions in Economics” – CL 1008

3:30-4:45pm, Porter Williams, “From Causality to Causation in Quantum Field Theory” – CL 1008

5:00 – 7:00pm – Light Reception, 10th and 11th floors

Saturday, November 5th

9:00am – Coffee and light continental breakfast available in Center for Philosophy of Science, 1117

9:30 – 10:45am Daniel Hausman, “Causal Asymmetry and Independent Variability” – CL 1008

11:00am-12:15pm Philip Kitcher, “The Theory of Scientific Explanation: An Obituary” – CL 1008

Break

2:00-2:45pm Closing remarks (Woodward)

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Start:
November 4, 2022 @ 9:00 am EDT
End:
November 5, 2022 @ 5:00 pm EDT
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1008 Cathedral of Learning
4200 Fifth Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15260 United States
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