On April 25th/26th, the Duke Causation Group hosted the Duke Causation Group Workshop at Duke University. The program is below,
Friday 04/25/25
9:00–9:30: Welcome and coffee
9:30-10:30: Matt Masten (Duke, Economics) – `Inference in small populations and the role of randomization’
10:30-11:30: James Woodward (Pittsburgh, History and Philosophy of Science) – `Some Issues Concerning Causal Selection’
11:30–12:30: Ny Vasil (California State University East Bay, Cognitive Science) — `Causal and categorical generics: seeking stability in an unstable world ’
12:30–14:00: Lunch
14:00–15:00: Tamar Kushnir (Duke, Cognitive Science) -- `Developing intuitive causal theories of action and their role in moral agency’
15:00–16:00: Elias Bareinboim (Columbia, Computer Science) -- `The Causal Hierarchy'
Saturday 04/26/25
9:30-10:30: Christopher Hitchcock (Caltech, Philosophy) – `Double Effect and Intervention’
10:30-11:30: Betsy Ogburn (Johns Hopkins, Biostatistics) – `Confounding and Nonsense Association in Dependent Data’’
11:30–12:30: Frederick Eberhardt (Caltech, Philosophy) – `The Impact of Variable Aggregation on the Instrumental Variable Approach’
12:30: End of workshop