Talks

Date	Talk / Location
March 2026	The Prospect of Avoiding Interventionist Exclusion by Variable Set Pruning, Workshop on Interventionism and Non-Causal Dependence at UFR de philosophie, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
Dec. 2025	Introducing Causal Hypergraphs, 13th European QCA Conference 2025 at the Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland.
Oct. 2025	From Regularities to Causal Complexity, Symposium on the Philosophy of Causation Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2025, Beijing.
Dec. 2023	Evaluating Sufficiency and Necessity in Model Building with Coincidence Analysis, 11th International QCA Expert Workshop 2023, University of Antwerp.
Sept. 2023	Introducing the Basics of Causal Data Analysis with Coincidence Analysis (CNA) for Implementation Research, Methods Training Workshop, Yale School of Public Health.
Aug. 2023	Boolean Difference-Making: A Modern Regularity Theory of Causation, Workshop on Causation, Dependence, and Regularity, University of Bergen.
Dec. 2021	Scoring in Configurational Comparative Methods: Current Developments in CNA and Avenues for QCA, 9th International QCA Expert Workshop 2021, online via Zoom, hosted by ETH Zuerich.
Nov. 2021	Causal Reasoning and Boolean Minimization – Panel with Sjur Dyrkolbotn, Department of Informatics, University of Bergen.
Nov. 2020	Robustness and Model Selection in Configurational Causal Modeling, 8th International QCA Expert Workshop 2020, online via Zoom, hosted by ETH Zuerich.
Dez. 2019	Optimizing Consistency and Coverage in Configurational Causal Modeling, 7th International QCA Expert Workshop 2019, ETH Zuerich.
Oct. 2019	An Abductive Theory of Constitution, Seton Hall University, New Jersey, workshop on Compositional Explanation in Biology and the Neurosciences.
Nov. 2018	Point-counter-point Debate on Solution Types, 6th International QCA Expert Workshop 2018, ETH Zuerich.
May 2018	Are There Multiple Viable QCA Systems? Point-counter-point Debate on Solution Types, International QCA Summer Workshop, University of Wuppertal.
Dec. 2017	Causal Modeling with Multi-Value and Fuzzy-Set Coincidence Analysis, 5th International QCA Expert Workshop 2017, ETH Zuerich.
Nov. 2017	The Inherent Empirical Underdetermination of Mental Causation, University of Stockholm.
Oct. 2017	Razoring Mental Causation non-Sober Style, University of Copenhagen, workshop on Elliott Sober’s User’s Manual on Ockham’s Razors (2015).
May 2017	Boolean Difference-Making: A Modern Regularity Theory of Causation, University of Bergen, the Bergen Philosophy of Science Workshop.
April 2017	Causal Modeling with Multi-Value and Fuzzy-Set Coincidence Analysis, University of Nottingham, Joint Sessions of the European Consortium for Political Research.
Dec. 2016	Boolean Difference-Making: A Modern Regularity Theory of Causation, University of Copenhagen, workshop on Current Issues in Causation.
Sept. 2016	A Bayesian Theory of Constitution, University of Geneva, 2nd Society for Metaphysics of Science conference.
June 2016	The Inherent Empirical Underdetermination of Mental Causation, University of Aarhus, conference on Causality in the Sciences of the Mind and Brain.
April 2016	The Inherent Empirical Underdetermination of Mental Causation, University of Glasgow, workshop of the Glasgow Emergence Project.
March 2016	Bayesian Constitutional Discovery, University of Duesseldorf, GWP.2016.
Sept. 2015	Establishing Constitutional Relations, in Theory and in Practice, University of Duesseldorf, EPSA15.
Sept. 2015	Mutual Manipulability and the Extension of Cognition, University of Osnabrueck, GAP.9.
Jan. 2015	When There is More Than Meets the Eye: Model Ambiguities in Configurational Comparative Research, Tilburg University, conference on Qualitative Comparative Analysis – Social Science Applications and Methodological Challenges.
Nov. 2014	Interventionist Remedies Against Causal Exclusion: Attractive But Ineffective, KU Leuven, workshop on Mental Causation: Old Problems, New Solutions?
Nov. 2014	Conceptual Foundations of QCA: From Hume and Mill via Reichenbach and Mackie to QCA, ETH Zuerich, 2nd International QCA Expert Workshop.
Nov. 2014	When There is More Than Meets the Eye: Model Ambiguities in Configurational Comparative Research, ETH Zuerich, 2nd International QCA Expert Workshop.
June 2014	A Regularity Theoretic Approach to Actual Causation, Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry, Syracuse University, IQMR Workshop on Causal Inference for Single Events.
April 2014	The Causal Chain Problem, University of Geneva.
Oct. 2013	Parsimony and Causality, ETH Zuerich, 1st International QCA Expert Workshop.
Aug. 2013	Constitutive Relevance, Mutual Manipulability, and Fat-Handedness, University of Helsinki, EPSA 2013.
July 2013	Is It Possible to Experimentally Reveal Non-Reductive Mental Causation?, University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, conference on Causality and Experimentation in the Sciences.
March 13	Constitutive Relevance and Mutual Manipulability, University of Hannover, GWP 2013.
Dec. 2012	Objectivizing Causal Regularities, University of Bochum, colloquium of the department of Philosophy.
Sept. 2012	Commentary on Tom Gordon: Evaluating Complex Legal Argumentation, University of Konstanz, workshop on Formal Methods in Argument Reconstruction.
Sept. 2012	Is it Possible to Experimentally Reveal Non-Reductive Mental Causation?, University of Konstanz, GAP.8.
July 2012	Is There Possibly an Evidence Based Resolution of the Problem of Causal Exclusion?, Humboldt University Berlin, workshop on the Metaphysics of Mind and Brain: Realization, Mechanisms, and Embodiment.
May 2012	Objectivizing Causal Regularities, University of Konstanz, workshop on the Objective Reality of Causality.
April 2012	Detecting Causal Chains in Small-N Data, University of Antwerp, ECPR Joint Sessions.
Dec. 2011	Identifying Intervention Variables, University of Geneva, workshop on Confirmation, Causation and Probability.
Nov. 2011	Determinism and the Method of Difference, University of Bern, workshop on Causality and Mechanisms in Philosophy of Science.
Nov. 2011	The Causal Chain Problem, University of Duesseldorf, workshop on Explanation, Causality and Unification.
Nov. 2011	The Causal Chain Problem, University of Osnabrueck, IKW Forschungskolloquium.
July 2011	Rendering Interventionism and Non-reductive Physicalism Compatible, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Delmenhorst, conference on Levels and Causation in Neuroscience.
June 2011	Exhibiting Interpretational and Representational Validity, Humboldt University Berlin.
June 2011	A Regularity Theoretic Approach to Actual Causation, University of Konstanz, workshop with Joseph Halpern.
March 2011	Rendering Interventionism and Non-reductive Physicalism Compatible, University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, workshop on Mechanisms and Counterfactuals.
Feb. 2011	Pros and Cons of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), University of Fribourg, workshop on Qualitative Comparative Analysis.
Jan. 2011	Interventionist Causal Exclusion, University of Witten/Herdecke, workshop on Constitutive Explanations and Supervenience.
Dec. 2010	Commentary on Michael Esfeld’s Causal Realism, LSE London, ESF workshop on Points of Contact between the Philosophy of Physics and the Philosophy of Biology.
Oct. 2010	Detecting Causal Chains in Small-N Data, University of Rotterdam, EIPE conference on Causality in the Biomedical and Social Sciences 2010.
Sept. 2010	A Regularity Theoretic Approach to Actual Causation, University of Konstanz, workshop on Actual Causation.
July 2010	Causal Assumptions in Causal Discovery, University of Konstanz, CausaProba research colloquium.
July 2010	The Causal Chain Problem, University of Munich, workshop on Concrete Causation.
April 2010	Determinism and the Method of Difference, University of Konstanz, CausaProba research colloquium.
Dec. 2009	Commentary on Jiji Zhang: Interventionism, Determinism, and the Causal Minimality Condition, University of Konstanz, Monthly Mondays.
Oct. 2009	The Logical Form of Interventionism, University of Amsterdam, EPSA09.
Sept. 2009	Interdefining Causation and Intervention, University of Geneva, SOPHA09.
March 2009	An Interventionist Exclusion Argument, University of Konstanz.
Dec. 2008	The Problem of (In)Validity Proofs, University of Bern.
June 2008	Unterdeterminiertheit des Schlusses auf Kausalketten, University of Karlsruhe.
Jan. 2008	Justifying Interventionist Assumptions, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, workshop on Causation in the Sciences.
Sept. 2007	The Causal Chain Problem, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh.
March 2007	The Inference to Chains, workshop on Contemporary Research in Philosophy, University of Lausanne.
Feb. 2007	On Adequate Formalization, research colloquium of the meaning.ch group, University of Bern.
Nov. 2006	Causal Relevance of Negative Factors, workshop on Contemporary Issues in Causation, Karman Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Bern.
Oct. 2006	Quine and Strawson, workshop on Strawson’s Individuals, meaning.ch, University of Bern.
Sept. 2006	Event Identity in Causal Contexts, GAP 6 (6th international congress of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy), Freie Universitaet Berlin.
Nov. 2005	Problems of an Analysis of the Causal Relation, workshop on Causal Reasoning Based on Observational Studies, Bundesanstalt fuer Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin Berlin.
Jan. 2005	Inferring Causal Complexity, Philosophy of Science research colloquium, University of Bern.