Parisation: A Conference on the Philosophy, Psychology, and Computer Science of Causality

Maison Suger is pleased to host a three-day conference initiated by Tomasz Wysocki, a PhD candidate in the philosophy of science at the University of Pittsburgh and Chateaubriand Fellow at the Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques (Panthéon-Sorbonne). The event will bring together philosophers, cognitive scientists, legal scholars, and computer scientists to explore the question of causality.

The presentations will address a wide range of topics, from metaphysics and philosophy of language to philosophy of action, general philosophy of science, and the philosophy of physics. They will also include work on causal-mechanical representations in cognitive science, theories of dispositional attribution, legal responsibility, and automated causal reasoning.

The programme features early-career and established researchers from diverse disciplines and countries, including Chile, China, France, Germany, Iran, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United States.

• Aydin Mohseni. Carnegie Mellon University. Daniel Herrmann. University of Groningen. A Bayesian Reduction of Causation.
• Brad Weslake. NYU Shanghai. A Puzzle About High-Level Causation.
• Brian Ortmann. Universität Hamburg. An Overlooked Necessary Condition For Causation (realizers).
• Christopher Gregory Weaver. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. On Feynman Diagrams and Causal Models.

• Christopher Hitchcock. California Institute of Technology. Double Effect and Intervention (moral).
• David Kinney. Washington University in St. Louis. Towards a Formal Semantics for Generic Causal Claims.
• Esteban Céspedes. Universidad Católica del Maule. A case against causal structuralism based on strong emergence.
• Gauvain Bourgne. Sorbonne Université. Formalizing Overdetermination with Labeled Transition Systems.

• Hojjat Imanikia. Ahmad Nasiri Mahallati.  Ferdowsi University of Mashad. Recasting Causation: From Physical Dependence to Ontological Grounding.
• Jon Iwry. Harvard Law School. Toward a Legal-Philosophical Theory of Actual Causation in the AI Age.
• Marina D'Amico. University of Milan. An Interventionist Approach to Causal Selection: The Optimal Control Hypothesis.
• Michael Waldmann. University of Göttingen. Toward a psychological account of mechanisms.

• Samuel Lee. NYU. The Ground Confound.
• Simone Salzano. University of Urbino. Emergence, Causation, and Free Will: A Case Against Libertarianism.
• Thomas Blanchard. Université Bordeaux Montaigne. Causal constraints.
• Tomasz Wysocki. University of Göttingen. The relevance theory of dispositions.

Tomasz Wysocki

Tomasz Wysocki holds a PhD in philosophy of science from the University of Pittsburgh; he is currently working on modeling a novel concept of underdeterministic causation. In Paris, he is a Chateaubriand fellow at Panthéon Sorbonne, Institut d'histoire et de philosophie des sciences et des techniques; subsequently, he will be a JSPS fellow at Kyoto University before assuming a post-doctoral position at the University of Göttingen. He completed a Ph.D. in economics (Wrocław University of Economics), an M.Sc. in computer science (University of Wrocław), an M.A. in philosophy (the University of Wrocław), and a M.A. in philosophy-neuroscience-psychology (Washington University in St. Louis).