ECitS 2012
Centre for Reasoning, University of Kent, 5-7 September 2012
Organisers: Phyllis Illari and Federica Russo
http://www.kent.ac.uk/secl/philosophy/jw/2012/ecits/
Causality is a vibrant and thriving topic in philosophy of science. It is closely related to many other challenging scientific concepts, such as probability and mechanisms, which arise in many different scientific contexts, in different fields. For example, they are relevant to both causal inference (finding out what causes what) and causal explanation (explaining how a cause produces its effect). They are also of interest to fields as diverse as astrophysics, biochemistry, biomedical and social sciences. There has also been an explosion of interest in evidence, most obviously in biomedical contexts with the rise of ‘evidence-based medicine’, but also elsewhere, such as in social science. What is evidence? How do we decide what our best sources of evidence are?
This conference will examine the relation between causality and evidence. This involves questions about the foundations of the sciences, e.g. what is evidence and how does it contribute to causal knowledge? But it also involves questions about specific applications, e.g. how should we best deal with the many problems of evidence given by expert witnesses in court; and questions about policy-making, e.g. what constitutes evidence of causation that is relevant to the design of socio-economic and public health policies?
These questions are all of immense current concern. Pressure on health systems from ageing populations, the obesity epidemic, coupled with severe financial constraints on public policy, means governments are demanding answers with increasing urgency.
**Confirmed Speakers**
Iain Chalmers
Mathias Frisch
Sandra Mitchell
David Lagnado
**Timetable**
• **EXTENDED DEADLINE** 26 MAY 2012: deadline for submission of titles and abstracts of papers for presentation at the conference
◦ Please submit only once: EITHER a long abstract (1000 words max) for presentation, OR a short abstract (300 words max) for a poster presentation.
◦ Send your abstract in doc, dock, txt, rft or pdf format.
◦ To be emailed to Phyllis Illari (phyllisillari@hotmail.co.uk) or Federica Russo (f.russo@kent.ac.uk)
Dr Federica Russo
Center Leo Apostel, VUB (BE) &
Centre for Reasoning, Kent (UK)
email: f.russo@kent.ac.uk or russo_fede@yahoo.it
https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/federica
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