Wednesday, 03/16/2016

2.00 p.m. – 2.30 p.m.
Dr. Gunnar Schumann
Welcoming address

2.30 p.m. – 3.30 p.m.
Dr. Giuseppina D’Oro, Keele University, UK
“What kind of debate is the causalist/anti-causalist debate?”

3.30 p.m. – 4.30 p.m.
Apl. Prof. Dr. Robert Schnepf, Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
“The conditionality of human actions“

4.30 p.m. – 5.00 p.m.
coffee break

5.00 p.m. – 6.00 p.m.
PD Dr. Doris Gerber, Universität Tübingen, Germany
“Counterfactual causality and historical explanations“

6.00 p.m. – 7.00 p.m.
Dr. Aviezer Tucker, Harvard University, USA
“Historical causation and origins“

Thursday, 03/17/2016

9.00 a.m. – 10.00 a.m.
Prof. Dr. Oliver R. Scholz, Universität Münster, Germany
“Historical explanations: The role of causation and non-strict generalizations”

10.00 a.m. – 11.00 a.m.
Prof. Dr. Alfred Mele, Florida State University, USA
“Some Attractions of Causalism“

11.00 a.m. – 11.20 a.m.
coffee break

11.20 a.m. – 12.20 p.m.
Prof. Dr. George F. Schueler, University of Delaware, USA
“Why and How? - Teleological and causal concepts in action explanations”

12.20 p.m. – 1.20 p.m.
lunch break

1.20 p.m. – 2.20 p.m.
Prof. Dr. Guido Löhrer, Universität Erfurt, Germany / Prof. Dr. Scott R. Sehon, Bowdoin College, USA
“Rationalizing principles and causal explanation“

2.20 p.m. – 3.20 p.m.
Dr. Julia Tanney, University of Kent, UK
[N.N.]

3.20 p.m. – 3.40 p.m.
coffee break

3.40 p.m. – 4.40 p.m.
Dr. Severin Schroeder, University of Reading, UK
“Reasons and causes in historical explanations“

Friday, 03/18/2016

9.00 a.m. – 10.00 a.m.
Apl. Prof. Dr. Thomas Keutner, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany
“Anscombe revisited”

10.00 a.m. – 11.00 a.m.
Dr. Gunnar Schumann, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany
„An anti-causal theory of action as basis for historical explanations”

11.00 a.m. – 11.20 a.m.
coffee break

11.20 a.m. – 12.20 p.m.
Prof. Dr. Thomas Bedorf, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany
„Practice Theory and collective intentionality”

12.20 p.m.
Farewell