Contact & Links

Contact

Dr. phil. Alexander Gebharter
Department of Theoretical Philosophy
University of Groningen
Oude Boteringestraat 52
9712 GL Groningen
Netherlands

alexander.gebharter[at]gmail.com

www.alexandergebharter.com

0000-0003-1708-2949

Links

My Academia.edu profile: https://rug.academia.edu/AlexanderGebharter

My PhilPapers profile: www.philpapers.org/profile/8716

My Google Scholar profile: www.scholar.google.de/citations?hl=de&user=VYlQKk0AAAAJ

My ORCID profile: www.orcid.org/0000-0003-1708-2949

My publons profile: www.publons.com/researcher/3111932/alexander-gebharter/

My Facebook profile: www.facebook.com/alexander.gebharter

Webpage of the Department of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Groningen: https://www.rug.nl/filosofie/organization/theoretical/?lang=en

Webpage of the Duesseldorf Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science (DCLPS): www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/dclps

Webpage of the DFG Research Unit Inductive Metaphysics: www.indmet.weebly.com

Webpage of the DFG Research Unit Causation, Laws, Dispositions, Explanation (CLDE): www.clde.uni-koeln.de

Webpage of KRITERION — Journal of Philosophy: www.kriterion-journal-of-philosophy.org

Webpage of the German Society for Philosophy of Science (GWP): www.wissphil.de

Webpage of the SOPhiA Graduate Conference Series: www.sophia-conference.org

in silico/vitro (Daniel Koch’s webpage): www.insilicovitro.wordpress.com

News

[August 12, 2019] Florian Fischer and I have a new paper on analysing dispositions within an interventionist framework forthcoming in Synthese. We compare the approach with classical conditional analyses and discuss new solutions to problems posed by masks, mimickers, and finks. You can find the draft here.

[July 11, 2019] My paper on fleshing out Stuart Glennan's mechanistic account of higher-level causation in terms of lower-level causation and constitution and causal Bayes nets has been accepted for publication in the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. Check out the draft here.

[May 12, 2019] New paper on analogical reasoning within the Bayesian framework accepted for publication in the Canadian Journal of Philosophy. Check out the draft version here.

[April 21, 2019] New paper on establishing backward causation on empirical grounds accepted for publication in Thought: A Journal of Philosophy. Check out the final version here or the draft version here.

[January 29, 2019] The call for papers for SOPhiA 2019 is out. The tenth SOPhiA graduate conference will be held September 18-20, 2019 in Salzburg, Austria. This year's plenary speakers are Hilary Greaves, Philip Kitcher, and Hannes Leitgeb. There will also be a best paper award. For details, check out the conference's website.

[November 1, 2018] New paper on how to handle counterexamples to the causal Markov condition such as Cartwright's chemical factory published in Synthese. The paper is co-authored with Nina Retzlaff. Check out the draft version here or the final version here.

[October 31, 2018] Going to PSA 2018!

[October 20, 2018] New paper co-authored with Christian Feldbacher-Escamilla on modeling creative abduction available as advance online publication in the European Journal for Philosophy of Science. Check it out here. You find the draft version here.

[September 10, 2018] In October I will start a position as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Groningen, Netherlands. Looking forward to a great time at a terrific research institution.

[June 8, 2018] A new paper on hybrid models of mechanisms which combine causal Bayes nets and cellular automata I wrote together with Daniel Koch has been accepted for publication in the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science -- hurray! A draft version of the paper is available here.

For older news, see the News Archive.