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The Statistics and Metaphysics of Causation Speaker: Professor David Papineau - Professor of Philosophy, King's College, London and City University of New York Time: Thursday 5th December, 5-6:30 p.m. Location: MB0.07 Mathematical Sciences Building, University of Warwick Abstract:For the last 100 years statisticians have been developing techniques to tease causal conclusions out of observational correlational data. For the most part philosophers have simply ignored these developments. Even when they have taken notice, they have done nothing to relate the success of these techniques to the metaphysical nature of causation. Curiously, this silence has been encouraged by the attitude of statisticians like Judea Pearl. The talk will reflect on this puzzling situation. Event website: https://www.statslife.org.uk/events/events-calendar/eventdetail/1517/-/rss-west-midlands-the-statistics-and-metaphysics-of-causation-professor-david-papineau You may leave the list at any time by sending the command SIGNOFF allstat to [log in to unmask], leaving the subject line blank.