University of Bergen
Department of Philosophy
Postboks 7805
5020 Bergen
Norway

Tel: +47 55 588 960
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Bio

I am a full professor at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Bergen and part of the Toppforsk-programme. My PhD is from the University of Bern (2005). I work on questions in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of logic, in particular, on causation, mechanistic constitution, and logical formalization. My publications include an introduction to the philosophy of causation entitled “Kausalitaet und kausales Schliessen” (2004) and numerous papers on causation, causal reasoning, regularity theories, Coincidence Analysis (CNA), interventionism, mechanistic constitution, non-reductive physicalism, epiphenomenalism, determinism, logical formalization, argument reconstruction/evaluation, modeling in the social sciences, QCA, and the slingshot argument.



News

  1. Working paper on new evaluation measures: L. De Souter and M. Baumgartner (unpublished), New sufficiency and necessity measures for model building with Coincidence Analysis.

  2. New paper published: M. Baumgartner and C. Falk (2024), Quantifying the Quality of Configurational Causal Models, Journal of Causal Inference, 60(1), pp. 20230032, doi: 10.1515/jci-2023-0032.

  3. New paper published: A.T. Kelley, M.A. Incze, M. Baumgartner, A.N.C. Campbell, E.V. Nunes , D.O. Scharfstein (2024), Predictors of Urine Toxicology and Other Biological Specimen Missingness in Randomized Trials of Substance Use Disorders, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, Volume 260, doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2024.111368.

  4. New version of the cna R package: Version 3.6.2 of the cna R package has been published on CRAN.

  5. New R Package to visualize CNA models: Version 0.1.0 of the causalHyperGraph R package has been published on CRAN.

  6. New version of the frscore R package: Version 0.4.1 of the frscore R package has been published on CRAN.

  7. New paper forthcoming: M. Baumgartner and L. Casini (forthcoming), Constitution, Non-Causal Explanation, and Demarcation, Ergo.