University of Bergen
Department of Philosophy
Postboks 7805
5020 Bergen
Norway

Tel: +47 55 588 960
Fax: +47 55 589 651
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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. Program for the 2025 CNA Training: A tentative program for this year’s CNA training workshop in Copenhagen, May 19-22, is now available. You can find it here.

  2. Program for the 2025 CNA Conference: The program for the 4th International CNA Conference in Copenhagen, May 23-24, is now available. You can find it here.

  3. New paper published: M. Baumgartner and L. Casini (2025), Constitution, Non-Causal Explanation, and Demarcation, Ergo, 12:14, doi: 10.3998/ergo.6924.

  4. Version 4.0.0 of the cna R package: Version 4.0.0 of the cna R package has been published on CRAN. It includes many new measures for evaluating sufficiency and necessity in model building.

  5. Peder Sather Grant: Emmeline Chuang (UC Berkeley) and I received a Peder Sather Grant in 2024 to support our collaboration over the next two years. We thank UC Berkeley’s Peder Sather Center for its support.

  6. Humaniora Strategy Grant: I received a Humaniora Strategy Grant from the University of Bergen to explore the potential of AI models for causal data analysis with CNA. I am grateful to the University of Bergen for its support.

  7. Preprint on new evaluation measures: L. De Souter and M. Baumgartner (2025), New Sufficiency and Necessity Measures for Model Building with Coincidence Analysis, Zenodo, doi: 10.5281/zenodo.13619580.

  8. New paper published: M. Baumgartner and C. Falk (2024), Quantifying the Quality of Configurational Causal Models, Journal of Causal Inference, 12(1), 20230032, doi: 10.1515/jci-2023-0032.

  9. 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, 260, 111368, doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2024.111368.