Beyond Causal Exclusion

Workshop: Causal Models, Causal Abstraction, and Levels of Causation

Beyond Causal Exclusion” Project: Hosted at the University of Hamburg

Thursday, June 11, 2026: AS-Saal, Main Building, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1

10:00-10:15	Welcome
10:15-11:15	Bram Vaassen (University of Umeå): Against Contextualized Proportionality
11:15-11:30	Coffee Break
11:30-12:30	Edoardo Fazzini (University of Bern): Aporetic Causal Models
14:30-15:30	Beate Krickel (TU Berlin): How and When Computational Models Are Mechanistic
15:30-15:45	Coffee Break
15:45-16:45	Michael Townsen Hicks (University of Glascow): Determination Relations in Causal and Metaphysical Explanation
16:45-17:00	Coffee Break
17:00-18:00	Max Kistler (University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne): Epiphenomenal Variables

Friday, June 12, 2026: ESA Ost 221, East Wing, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1

10:00-11:00	Kate Barnes (University of Colorado Boulder): Are Causal Inference Methods Ontologically Neutral?
11:00-11:15	Coffee Break
11:15-12:15	Laura Franklin-Hall (New York University): The Meta-explanatory Question and Explanatory Functionalism
12:15-12:30	Coffee Break
12:30-13:30	Matthias Rolffs (University of Bern): How Much of a Cause? Degrees of Causation Between Sufficiency and Necessity

Organizers

Brian Ortmann: (brian.ortmann@uni-hamburg.de) 

Thomas Kroedel: (thomas.kroedel@uni-hamburg.de)