Portrait of Michael Baumgartner

University of Bergen
Department of Philosophy
Postboks 7805
5020 Bergen
Norway

Tel: +47 55 588 960
Email: michael.baumgartner@uib.no

Philosophy of Science • Causation • Coincidence Analysis

I work on causation, mechanistic constitution, logical formalization, and configurational methods, with a particular focus on Coincidence Analysis.

Publications Research Vita Teaching CNA

Profile

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). My work spans philosophy of science and philosophy of logic, especially questions of causation, causal reasoning and discovery, mechanistic constitution, and logical formalization.

My publications include an introduction to the philosophy of causation entitled “Kausalitaet und kausales Schliessen” (2004) as well as numerous papers on causal reasoning, regularity theories, Coincidence Analysis (CNA), interventionism, non-reductive physicalism, determinism, argument reconstruction, and configurational modeling in the social sciences.

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News

  1. New paper: M. Baumgartner and T. Lampert (forthcoming), Breaking Symmetry: A New Directionality Criterion for Regularity Theories of Causation, Erkenntnis.

  2. New paper: B. Distel, R. Plattfaut, and M. Baumgartner (2026). Coincidence Analysis: An Alternative Method for Studying Causal Complexity in IS Research, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 59.