Duke Philosophy Colloquium

[Nancy Pfeiffer]

Hello everyone,

 

Our next Colloquium will be Friday, November 22, 2024. The speaker is Jiji Zhang, Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His title and abstract are:

Regularity-theoretic interventionism

As an influential approach to theorizing about causation, interventionism is standardly presented as following a counterfactual line of attack. I examine the main reasons for treating interventionism as a broadly counterfactual account and argue that those reasons track features that are not essential to the attractiveness of interventionism. I outline a way to formulate interventionism that is broadly regularity-theoretic and highlight some potential advantages of this perspective.

The Colloquium schedule is as follows:

10:30 am                   Arrival

12:30 pm                   Grad student lunch with Speaker

2:00-2:45 pm            Coffee & Cookies in the Philosophy Lounge

2:45-3:00 pm            Colloquium Prep

3:00-5:00 pm            Colloquium - West Duke Building, Room 202

5:00-6:00 pm            Reception in the Philosophy Lounge

 

We look forward to seeing you there!

 

Duke Philosophy Department

Nancy Pfeiffer

Staff Assistant