1. Interventionism (B)

(Chair: Mauricio Suárez)

2. Causal Inference (216)

(Chair: Mieke Boon)

Marcellesi Invariance is not necessary for causal explanation

Lemeire Metamechanisms deceiving causal structure learning

De Bianchi Intervention and theories of causal explanation: what can we learn from engineering?

De Craecker Actual causation and causal sufficiency

Schindler Conceptual lacunae in Bokulich’s account of explanatory fictions

Gauderis & Van De Putte Explanations, generalizations and abduction 

3. Mechanistic and Causal Explanation (B)

(Chair: Raoul Gervais)

4. Effects and Policy (216)

(Chair: Jan Willem Lindemans)

Williamson Reconciling mechanistic explanation with causal explanation

Wieland Why don’t effects explain?

Pemberton Towards a unification of causal and mechanistic explanation

Broadbent Two kinds of difference-making

Couch Mechanistic explanations and causation

5. Understanding and Explanation (B)

(Chair: Mark Shumelda)

6. Causality and Explanation in Biology 1 (216) (Chair: Mark Couch)

Bradner The role of empirical constraint in the philosophy of explanation: what data can and can’t do for the choice between Woodward’s realist and van Fraassen’s anti-realist approaches to understanding

Baedke ‘Wiggling’ Non-genetic Inheritance Systems: Manipulation, Causality and Explanation in Epigenetics

Van Camp Causation, understanding, and explanation

Kosolosky ‘Causa efficiens’ versus ‘causa finalis’: functional explanations in biology

7. The Kairetic Account of Explanation (B)

(Chair: Frederik Van De Putte)

8. Causality and Explanation in Biology 2 (216) (Chair: Samantha Kleinberg)

Lefevere Difference-making in causation: what lawyers can learn from scientists and vice versa

Gross Dynamical concepts as alternative heuristic to mechanistic explanation

Koo Explanation or representation: the role of mathematics in the sciences

Joffe The concept of causation in biology

Bich On the specificity of biological explanation: two approaches to the modeling of the organization of basic living systems

9. Mechanistic and Multi-Scale Explanation (B) (Chair: Laszlo Kosolosky)

10. Causality and Explanation in Physics 1 (216) (Chair: Alex Broadbent)

McGivern Multi-scale explanation

Farr and Reutlinger Temporal adirectionality and counterfactual difference-making in physics

Russo et al. Functions and mechanisms in structural explanations

Shumelda Emergence in quantum gravity: causation or explanation?

Illari Collapsing the ontic and epistemic

Ghins Is there an intrinsic criterion for causal lawlike statements?

11. Causality and Explanation in the Social Sciences 1 (B) (Chair: Alessio Moneta)

12. Structuralism and Structural Explanation (216) (Chair: Wesley Van Camp)

Moneta Causal explanation in evolutionary economics: a critical reappraisal of Veblen’s view

Kuipers Nomic possibilities as the core primitive for a realist explication of causal laws, causal theories, and of two types of causal explanation

Lindemans Mapping the causal spiral: on the role of rational choice and evolution in explaining cooperation

Muller Structural explanation

13. Causality and Explanation in Physics 2 (B)

(Chair: Rogier De Langhe)

14. Causality and Explanation in Medicine (216) (Chair: Alexandra Bradner)

Wayne Modelling, idealization and causal explanation in physics

Kleinberg Temporal token causal explanation

Bokulich Causal reduction and the explanatory power of physical dynamics

Abrams Sometimes a heart is just like a wheel of fortune: how the complexity of organisms’ interactions makes natural selection a cause

15. Causality and Explanation in the Social sciences 2 (B) (Chair:Merel Lefevere)

16. Causal inference and inferentialism (216)

(Chair:Theo Kuipers)

Prescott-Couch Social science and manipulability

Andersen Why we should be more worried about violations of causal faithfulness

Pongiglione The key role of causal explanation in the climate change issue

Sprenger Hypothesis tests, causal inference and reference Bayesianism

Delanghe The relation between different types of explanation: the case of the Historikerstreit

Casini Causation: many words, one thing?

17. Causal and Constitutive Explanation (B)

(Chair: Jan Willem Wieland)

18. Mathematical Explanation (216)

(Chair:Tjerk Gauderis)

Ylikoski Causal and constitutive explanation compared

Franklin Purely mathematical explanations and Aristotelian realism

Barros How mechanisms cause and explain

Gijsbers A general interventionist theory of explanation: extending Woodward’s account

Hédoin How to explain emergence in the social world? Institutions, causality and constitutive relationships

Corvini Different proofs, different explanations: a case study in Euclidian geometry

Gervais Causation versus constitution in mechanistic explanations

Boon Scientist meets philosophy: we need explanation, but not all explanation is causal