CHARLES PERKINS CENTRE
MuST 10: Causation and Complexity
10th Munich-Sydney-Tilburg Conference in the Philosophy of Science
1-3 March 2017
Charles Perkins Centre – D17
Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP), Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich
Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science (SCFS), University of Sydney
Tilburg Centre for Logic, Ethics and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS), University of Tilburg
In collaboration with the Centre for Complex Systems (CCS), University of Sydney
Organising Committee:
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Prof. Mikhail Prokopenko (CCS)
Prof. Paul Griffiths (SCFS)
Prof. Mark Colyvan (SCFS)
Prof. Stephan Hartmann (MCMP)
Prof. Jan Sprenger (TiLPS)
Funded by the Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science and the Centre for Complex
Systems, University of Sydney.
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WednesdayMarch1st
6.00-7.30Keynoteaddress
StuartKauffman(Pennsylvania) TheEmergenceandEvolutionof
CPCHubMainAuditorium
LifeBeyondPhysics
(accessfromforecourt)
ThursdayMarch2nd
Standardtalksare25mwith5mquestions,Plenariesare50mwith10mquestions
08.50-09.00ConferenceOpening
CPCHubLevel6SeminarRoom6.01
9.00-10.30Parallel1
Philosophyofcausation
Level6SeminarRoom6.01
StephanHartmann(LMU)
Conditionals,Testimony,and
CausalStructure
HolgerLyre(Magdeburg)
Structures,dynamicsand
mechanisms–anintegrative
account
DavidKinney(LSE/ANU)
ChoosingaLevelofCausal
Description:APragmatic
Approach
9.00-10.30Parallel2
Complexsystems
PicassoRoom60.03
MichaelS.Harre(Sydney)
DiscreteFractalStructuresin
LayeredErdős–RényiNetworks
GeorgeNguyen(Queensland)
CausalPatternsasIntrinsic
Emergence
SallyShrapnel(Queensland)
Quantumcausalmodelling
10.30-11.00Coffee
11.00-1.00Parallel1
Analysingcausation
Level6SeminarRoom6.01
AlessioMoneta(Pisa)
Variabledefinitionandcausal
inference:theroleofindependent
componentanalysis
ErikP.Nyberg(Monash)
X-Separation:Minimising
Bayesiannetwork
parameterisationforinformal
reasoning.
JanSprenger(Tilburg)
FoundationsofaProbabilistic
TheoryofCausalStrength
CeiMaslen(VUW)
DegreesofCausalContribution
11.00-1.00Parallel2
Complexityandinformation
PicassoRoom60.03
MikhailProkopenko(Sydney)
InformationThermodynamicsof
ComplexComputation
EduardoG.Altmann(Sydney)
StatisticalLawsinComplex
Systems
RichardE.Spinney(Sydney)
Transferentropyinphysical
systemsandthearrowoftime
EmanueleCrosato(Sydney)
InformationDynamicsinSwarms
1.00-2.00Lunch
2.00-4.00Parallel1
Causationandinformation
MUST10:CausationandComplexityMarch1-32017
Level6SeminarRoom6.01
JosephLizier(Sydney)
ArnaudPocheville&Paul
Griffiths(Sydney)
BradWeslake(NYU,Shanghai)
HenningStrandin(Stockholm)
2.00-4.00Parallel2
PicassoRoom60.03
Causationandevidencein
medicine
JonWilliamson(Kent)
SydneyKatherineGreen
(Antwerp)
RolandPoellinger(LMU)
BarbaraOsimani(LMU)
4.00-4.30Coffee
4.30-5.30PlenarySpeaker
Level6SeminarRoom6.01
KevinKorb(Monash)
Differentiatinginformation
transferandcausaleffect,or:Why
youshouldbeinterestedinmore
thancausality
Givingsubstancetobiological
information
Causation,Informationand
Specificity
TakingControl:HowOurSenseOf
AgencyCanBeAReliableSense
ForCausation
ModelsinSystemsMedicine
TheImpossibilityofCausalClaims
inPsychiatry:
AnAnalysisoftheRussoWilliamsonThesisandIts
Implications
LearningfromRelevantEvidence:
SimilarityandAnalogyin
Pharmacology
Exactreplicationorvaried
evidence?Reliability,robustness
andthereproducibilityproblem
Causalexplanationwith
Bayesiannetworks
ConfereesareencouragedtocontinuediscussionattheGardenBar,MarlboroughHotel,Cnrof
MissendenRdandKingSt.Thisisabout10mwalkfromtheconferencevenue.
FridayMarch3rd
9.00-10.00Parallel1
Socialcomplexity
Level6SeminarRoom6.01
AlexanderKalloniatis(DSTO)
Isthereacontinuingrolefor
dynamicalmathematicalmodels
tounderstandcomplexityin
humanorganisationalsystems?
PatriciaPalacios(LMU)
MarketCrashesasCritical
Phenomena?Explanation,
Idealization,andUniversalityin
Econophysics
9.00-10.00Parallel2
Biologicalcomplexity
PicassoRoom60.03
RasmusWinther(UCSC)
PartitioningandExplaining
ComplexSystems:TheBrainand
OceanicGaia
MilesMacLeod(Twente)
MesoscopicModelingasa
CognitiveStrategyforHanding
MUST10:CausationandComplexityMarch1-32017
10.00-11.00PlenarySpeaker
Level6SeminarRoom6.01
11.00-11.30Coffee
11.30-1.00Parallel1
Level6SeminarRoom6.01
ComplexBiologicalSystems
Anne-MarieGrisogono(Flinders) Thescienceofmakingsenseof
complexsystems
Socialcomplexity(continued)
IanF.Wilkinson(Sydney)
Firminternationalisationasan
EmergentPropertyofaComplex
AdaptiveSystem
Emergenceofscale-free
characteristicsinsocio-ecological
systemswithboundedrationality
Modellingemotionalphenomena
asdynamicsystems
Mahendra Piraveenan(Sydney)
ElenaWalsh(Sydney)
11.30-1.00Parallel2
PicassoRoom60.03
Biologicalcomplexity
(continued)
BrettCalcott(Sydney)
Conferenceends
Theroleofcausalinfluenceinthe
evolutionofthegenetictoolkit
LachlanDouglasWalmsley(ANU) Givemesomespace:Causal
explanation,populationthinking,
andagent-basedmodels
PierrickBourrat(Macquarie)
Anewphysicalinterpretationof
driftinadeterministicsetup