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. CNA26 training workshop: The 2026 CNA training will be held at UC Berkeley, School of Social Welfare, from June 8 to 11, 2026, with support by the Peder Sather Center. The local organizer is Emmeline Chuang. Join us at Berkeley to learn CNA from the ground up!

  2. 5th international CNA conference: The 5th international CNA conference will be held at UC Berkeley, School of Social Welfare, from June 12 to 13, 2026, with support by the Peder Sather Center. The local organizer is Emmeline Chuang. Join us at Berkeley to discuss current issues in Coincidence Analysis!

  3. Version 4.0.3 of the cna R package: Version 4.0.3 of the cna R package has been published on CRAN. It includes many new measures for evaluating sufficiency and necessity in model building.

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

  5. 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.

  6. 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.