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Non-Causal Explanations

9-10 May 2019
Gent, Belgium

CALL FOR PAPERS

Workshop on
NON-CAUSAL EXPLANATIONS: LOGICAL, LINGUISTIC AND PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES

Ghent University, May 9?10, 2019

Scope

Many disciplines, from mathematics to metaphysics, employ non-causal 
explanations. But what is the logic (or the logics) of non-causal 
explanation? What are the pros and cons of different logical approaches? 
Is the linguistic expression of non-causal explanation specifically 
codified in some natural language? Can algorithms pick up non-causal 
explanations in textual databases? The workshop welcomes formal and 
informal contributions both from within specific disciplines employing 
non-causal explanations and from a more general perspective. Topics 
include, but are not limited to the following: Is non-causal explanation 
hyperintensional? Among the axioms governing the logical behaviour of 
non-causal explanation are there factivity, symmetry, associativity ones? 
What is the relation between non-causal explanation and concepts in its 
vicinity (causal explanation, understanding, ...)? What is the relation 
between non-causal explanation in general and metaphysical grounding in 
particular? Can (one of) the logics of grounding be applied to non-causal 
explanation in general? Are some explanations in the natural sciences 
(physics, chemistry, biology, ....)  really non-causal?

Keynote speakers

Hannes Leitgeb (Munich)
Francesca Poggiolesi (Paris)
Erik Weber (Ghent)

How to submit an abstract

We welcome submissions on any topic that fits into the scope as described 
above. Send your abstract of 300 to 500 words to: lrr@ugent.be 
<mailto:lrr@ugent.be> by February 1, 2019, 23h59? CET.

Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2019.

Website

More information about the workshop (venue, registration, ?) is available 
at http://www.lrr.ugent.be/noncausalexplanation/ 
<http://www.lrr.ugent.be/noncausalexplanation/>.  The program will be 
available around March 15, 2019.

Background

This workshop is organized by the scientific research network Logical and 
Methodological Analysis of Scientific Reasoning Processes (LMASRP) which 
is sponsored by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO). All information 
about the network can be found at http://www.lmasrp.ugent.be/ 
<http://www.lmasrp.ugent.be/>. An overview of the previous workshops of 
the network can be found at http://www.lrr.ugent.be/archive/. 
<http://www.lrr.ugent.be/archive/>

Related conference

On May 6?8, 2019 the University of Liège and UCLouvain will hold a 
conference on Explaining explanation using new developments in logic and 
formal semantics. See https://perso.uclouvain.be/peter.verdee/exlog2019 
<https://perso.uclouvain.be/peter.verdee/exlog2019>

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