Philosophy & Science

• There are no mathematical explanations

  • Time: Dec 16, Saturday, 9AM-11PM (EST)
  • Discussion Leader: Tianqin
• The Philosophy of Bayesian Statistics (§2.3 in Thinking About Statistics) (Notes)

  • Time: Dec 9, Saturday, 1-3PM (EST)
  • Discussion Leader: Zili
• Counterfactual scepticism and antecedent contextualism

  • Time: 4 June, Sunday, 11AM(ET)
  • Discussion Leader: Shimin
• Morrison 2015 – Reconstruct Reality part ii, sec 5

  • Time: 27 May, Sunday, 3:30PM(ET)
  • Discussion Leader: Yichen
• The mythos of model interpretability

  • Time: 20 May, Saturday, 11AM(ET)
  • Discussion Leader: Wang Anqi
• Work on biological function

  • Time: 30 April, Sunday, 3:30PM(ET)
  • Discussion Leader: Tianqin
• A new perspective on time and physical laws

  • Time: 23 April, Sunday, 3:30PM(ET)
  • Discussion Leader: Yichen
• Is ‘race’ real: an interventionist perspective

  • Time: 9 April, Sunday, 3:30PM(ET)
  • Discussion Leader: Shimin
• Determinism as a stance

  • Time: 2 April, Sunday, 3:30PM(ET)
  • Discussion Leader: Weixin
• Reconciling Contrastive and Non-contrastive Explanation

  • Time: 26 Mar, Sunday, 3:30PM(ET)
  • Discussion Leader: Anqi
• Despite Our Death in the Long Run

  • Time: 12 Mar, Sunday, 3:30PM(ET)
  • Guest speaker: Hanti Lin
• Genetic Relatedness and the Evolution of Altruism

  • Time: 5 Mar, Sunday, 3:30PM(ET)
  • Discussion Leader: Tianqin
• Fictions, Representations, and Reality

  • Time: 26 Feb, Sunday, 3:30PM(ET)
  • Discussion Leader: Tianqin
• Shimin’s prospectus

  • Time: 12 Feb, Sunday, 3:30PM(ET)
  • Discussion Leader: Shimin
• Causal Analysis of Simpson’s Paradox Beyond DAGs (if you are interested, ask us)

  • Time: 5 Feb, Sunday, 3:30PM(ET)
  • Guest Speaker: Zili
• Sec 1-4 in sep “causation in physics”

  • Time: 29 Jan, Sunday, 3:30PM(ET)
  • Discussion Leader: Yichen
• How to Be a Humean Interventionist

  • Time: 22 Jan, Sunday, 3:30PM(ET)
  • Discussion Leader: Wang Anqi
• Causation as Influence (PDF,Notes)

  • Time: 14 Jan, Saturday, 3:30PM(ET)
  • Discussion Leader: Cai
• Explanations in search of observations (Notes)

• Can Asymptomatic Models Be Explanatory

• There is No Such Thing as Statistical Explanation (PDF, Notes)

• The Nature and Scope of Rational-Choice Explanation (Notes)

• Optimality Modeling and Explanatory Generality

• Interventionism and Over-Time Causal Analysis in Social Sciences

• Values, Heuristics, and the Politics of Knowledge (Notes)

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