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>CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
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>Causality and probability in the sciences
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>http://www.kent.ac.uk/secl/philosophy/jw/2006/capits.htm
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>14-16 June 2006
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>University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
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>Causal inference is perhaps the most important form of reasoning in the
>sciences. A panoply disciplines, ranging from epidemiology to biology,
>from econometrics to physics, make use of probability and statistics in
>order to infer causal relationships. The social and health sciences
>analyse population-level data using statistical methods to infer average
>causal relations. In diagnosis of disease, probabilistic statements are
>based on population-level causal knowledge combined with knowledge of a
>particular person’s symptoms. For the physical sciences, the Salmon-Dowe
>account develops an analysis of causation based on the notion of process
>and interaction. In artificial intelligence, the development of graphical
>methods has leant impetus to a probabilistic analysis of causality. The
>biological sciences use probabilistic methods to look for evolutionary
>causes of the state of a current species and to look for genetic causal
>factors. This variegated situation raises at least two fundamental
>philosophical issues: about the relation between causality and
>probability, and about the interpretation of probability in causal
>analysis. In this workshop we aim to bring philosophers and scientists
>together to discuss the relation between causality and probability, and
>the applications of these concepts within the sciences.
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>Example questions:
>How is causality related to probability?
>Which interpretations of probability best fit the uses of causality in the
>sciences?
>Do different sciences demand different notions of causality and probability?
>How are causality and probability employed in scientific models?
>Which formalisms for causal and probabilistic reasoning suit which sciences?
>Does causal inference vary according to discipline?
>Which case studies shed most light on the uses of causality and
>probability in the sciences?
>How has causal inference changed over time?
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>TIMETABLE
>1st April: deadline for submission of abstracts of papers for presentation
>- one-page abstracts to be emailed to
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>- please say whether you would be prepared to submit your paper to a
>volume of papers on this topic.
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>1st May: notification of acceptance of papers for presentation.
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>8th May: deadline for registration to attend the conference.
>- register by posting the conference fee of £20 sterling with the
>registration form
>(http://www.kent.ac.uk/secl/philosophy/Whatson/causality-conference/bookingform.pdf)
>to
>Department of Philosophy, attn. Miriam Waters, Cornwallis Building NW,
>University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NF, UK
>- please make out cheques to UNIKENT, with `Conference Causality,
>probability and the sciences’ on the reverse side.
>- please also send an email to
><mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask] to say that you will be
>attending.
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>1st June: deadline for submission of full papers for publication
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>14th-16th June: conference.
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>1st August: notification of acceptance of papers for publication.
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>1st September: deadline for final version of papers accepted for publication.
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