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Philosophy of Psychology Workshop 6:00 pm
Philosophy of Psychology Workshop @ NYU Philosophy Dept. rm 302
Mar 6 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
PopRocks is a read-ahead, works-in-progress workshop for graduate students and postdocs in the philosophy of cognitive science and mind. We meet on Fridays to hear and discuss a paper, and try to keep a low-pressure, constructive environment. If that sounds useful to you please get in touch and sign up to present! Feb 21 – Juliette Vazard Mar 6 – Stephan Pohl Mar 27 – David Udell Apr 3 – Simon Brown Apr 10 –[...]
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Cancelled- The Statistical Nature of Causation. David Papineau 4:15 pm
Cancelled- The Statistical Nature of Causation. David Papineau @ CUNY Grad Center, 7395
Mar 16 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm
For over a hundred years econometricians, epidemiologists, educational sociologists and other non-experimental scientists have used asymmetric correlational patterns to infer directed causal structures. It is odd, to say the least, that no philosophical theories of causation cast any light on why these techniques work. Why do the directed causal structures line up with the asymmetric correlational patterns? Judea Pearl says that the correspondence is a “gift from the gods”. Metaphysics owes us a better answer.[...]
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Philosophy of Psychology Workshop 6:00 pm
Philosophy of Psychology Workshop @ NYU Philosophy Dept. rm 302
Mar 27 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
PopRocks is a read-ahead, works-in-progress workshop for graduate students and postdocs in the philosophy of cognitive science and mind. We meet on Fridays to hear and discuss a paper, and try to keep a low-pressure, constructive environment. If that sounds useful to you please get in touch and sign up to present! Feb 21 – Juliette Vazard Mar 6 – Stephan Pohl Mar 27 – David Udell Apr 3 – Simon Brown Apr 10 –[...]
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