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 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

News

[April 21, 2019] New paper on establishing backward causation on empirical grounds forthcoming in Thought: A Journal of Philosophy. Check out 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.

[April 25, 2018] I’m giving a talk on Stuart Glennan’s mechanistic account of higher-level causation at the MCMP today. The idea is to reconstruct the account in terms of causal Bayes nets in order to identify several assumptions one has to make to get Stuart’s analysis working.

[April 15, 2018] I’ve started editing the PhilPapers categories Causal Reasoning, Causal Modeling, and Causal Reasoning, Misc.

[December 10, 2017] The call for papers for SOPhiA 2018 is out. The conference will be held September 12-14, 2018 in the beatiful city of Salzburg. Our plenary speakers for 2018 are Elisa Aatola, Helen Beebee, and Wolfgang Künne. There will also be a couple of affiliated workshops on various topics within analytic philosophy. For details about SOPhiA 2018 and how to submit, check out our website.

[October 15, 2017] I have edited a special issue of the Journal for General Philosophy of Science together with Christian Feldbacher-Escamilla and Gerhard Schurz featuring selected papers of the second international conference of the German Society for Philosophy of Science 2016 (GWP.2016). It has recently been published. Here is the link to the special issue.

[October 7, 2017] My paper on modeling the causal exclusion problem and some consequences for the exclusion debate within interventionism in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research is out. Check it out here. You find a draft version of the paper here.

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