[PhilPhys] Causes and Tensen - Krakow, 10-11 Sept. 2010

["Leszek Wroński"]

Hello,

I would like to announce the "Causes and Tenses" workshop which will take place in Krakow in September; all the details are below:


Causes and Tenses: Formal Perspectives

Kraków, September 10-11, 2010

Honorary chair: Nuel Belnap

Host: Tomasz Placek (Tomasz.Placek at uj.edu.pl)

Aim: The underlying idea is to bring together researchers doing probabilistic causation (analyzed formally) with researchers of tenses, analyzed from either a logical or metaphysical perspective.  The emphasis will be on small data structures for analyzing causes and indeterminism, common causation and causal completability, and new techniques for the problem of future contingents.

Depending on the participants’ interests, the following discussions will be organized: 
(1)recent results in causal completability;
(2)the Thin Red Line doctrine;
(3)individuals in possible histories.

A junior session, for PhD students to present, is planned as well. 

Speakers:

Nuel Belnap (Pittsburgh): How Case-intensional Semantics Prevents the Slingshot from Hitting its Target

Fabrice Correia (Geneva): A "classical" tempo-modal logic for future contingents

Thomas Müller (Utrecht): Small data structures for representing indeterminism

Miklós Rédei (London) and Zalán Gyenis (Budapest): Characterizing Common Cause Closed probability spaces

Venue: Department of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, Grodzka St. 52, 31-055 Kraków.

Organized by:
Department of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, and
Copernicus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies.

Programme: It will be announced by September 5.

Contact: Tomasz.Placek at uj.edu.pl




Best regards,

Leszek Wronski.
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