BARCELONA CONFERENCE ON CAUSALITY AND EXPLANATION IN PHYSICS, BIOLOGY AND ECONOMICS

BARCELONA CONFERENCE ON


CAUSALITY AND EXPLANATION IN PHYSICS, BIOLOGY AND ECONOMICS

Barcelona, February 18-20, 2010

Faculty of Philosophy, 6 Montalegre Street, 4th floor





Sponsors: LOGOS Research Group

GRECC Research Group

Consolider-Ingenio Project PERSP

MICINN Research Projects FFI2008-06418-C03-03 & FFI2008-01580

Organizing Committee:

José Díez (Universitat de Barcelona, LOGOS Research Group), <jose.diez@ub.edu>

Carl Hoefer (ICREA, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, GRECC Research Group), <Carl.Hoefer@uab.es>

Oscar Cabaco (University of Barcelona)

- There is no attendance fee, but people interested in attending should register by sending an e-mail to <jose.diez@ub.edu> or <Carl.Hoefer@uab.es>


Thursday 18: Physics

9,30 Welcome

Morning session. Chair: Henrik Zinkernagel. Venue: Aula Gran

10,00 - 11,30 Joseph Berkovitz (Toronto): On explaining the quantum correlations

Mauricio Suárez (U. Complutense): Comments

11,30 - 12,00 Coffee break

12,00 - 13,30 Leonard Smith (Oxford): Causation and explanation in our nonlinear world

Roman Frigg (LSE): Comments

13,30 - 15,30 Lunch

Afternoon session. Chair: Iñaki San Pedro. Venue: Aula Gran

15,30 - 17,00 Craig Callender (UC San Diego): Looking at the world sideways

Mathias Frisch (Maryland): Comments

17,00 - 17,20 Coffee break

17,20 - 18,30 General discussion on Causation and Explanation in Physics


Friday 19: Biology

Morning session. Chair: Valeriano Iranzo. Venue: Aula Gran

10,00 - 11,30 Lisa Gannet (Saint Mary’s): Objectivity and population genomics research

Pablo Lorenzano (U. Quilmes): Comments

11,30 - 12,00 Coffee break

12,00 - 13,30 Ken Waters (Minnesota): Are actual difference making causes the

causes that really matter?

Arantza Etxeberría (UPV): Comments

13,30 - 15,30 Lunch

Afternoon session. Chair: Alvaro Moreno. Venue: Aula 401

15,30 - 17,00 Elliott Sober (Wisconsin): Causation and explanation in evolutionary sex
ratio theory

Antonio Diéguez (U. Málaga): Comments

17,00 - 17,20 Coffee break

17,20 - 18,30 General discussion on Causation and Explanation in Biology

21,00 Conference Dinner

Saturday 20: Economics

Morning session. Chair: Jordi Mundo. Venue: Aula Gran

10,00 - 11,30 Caterina Marchionni (Helsinki): Playing (with) networks: How economists

explain

Julian Reiss (Rotterdam): Comments

12,00 - 13,30 Antoni Domenech (U. Barcelona): Free market, rationality and general

equilibrium: politics, science and philosophy at the origins of the

neoclassical way of thinking

Jesús Zamora (UNED): Comments

13,30 - 15,30 Lunch

Afternoon session. Chair: David Teira. Venue: Aula Gran

15,30 - 17,00 Alex Rosenberg (Duke): Invariants, arms races and natural selection in human affairs?

Stephan Hartmann (Tilburg): Comments

17,00 - 17,20 Coffee break

17,20 - 18,30 General discussion on Causation and Explanation in Economics

18,30 - 19,30: Closure: Open discussion