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
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