Causes and Tenses: Formal Perspectives
Kraków, September 10-11, 2010
Honorary chair: Nuel Belnap
Aim: The underlying idea is to bring together researchers doing probabilistic causation (analyzed formally) with researchers of tenses, analyzed from either a logical or metaphysical perspective. The emphasis will be on small data structures for analyzing causes and indeterminism, common causation and causal completability, and new techniques for the problem of future contingents.
Venue: Department of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, Grodzka 52, 31-055 Kraków, Room 28.
Organized by: Department of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University and Copernicus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies.
Contact: Tomasz.Placek@uj.edu.pl
Programme
Friday Sept. 10:
15.00-15.15 Welcome
15.15-16.30 Miklós Rédei (London) and Zalįn Gyenis (Budapest): Characterizing
common cause closed probability spaces
17.00-17.45 Micha³ Marczyk and Leszek Wroński (Kraków): Remarks on the notion of
causal closedness of classical probability spaces
18.00-18.45 A discussion: What we know and what we don’t know about common
causes
19.30 Dinner
Saturday Sept. 11
10.00-11.15 Nuel Belnap (Pittsburgh): How case-intensional semantics prevents
the slingshot from hitting its target
11.30-12.45 Thomas Müller (Utrecht): Small data structures for representing
indeterminism
Lunch
14.15-15.30 Fabrice Correia (Geneva): A "classical" tempo-modal logic for
future contingents
15.45-16.30 Jacek Wawer (Kraków): How to Survive on the Thin Red Line?
16.45-18.00 Tomasz Placek (Kraków): On the assertion problem
18.00-18.45 Discussion: Thin Red Line - Pros and Cons.