Workshop on causality across disciplines
Time: November 18th, 1pm-5pm
Place: 715 Broadway, 10th floor (main meeting area)
If you need access to the floor, please call extension 83488 from the hall phone and someone will let you in.
We will have speakers across a range of disciplines, from computer science to philosophy to psychology, discussing problems related to the representation, inference, and understanding of causality.
For questions or to confirm your attendance, please e-mail samantha [at] cs.nyu.edu.
Full Schedule:
1:00-1:40 Samantha Kleinberg (NYU, Computer Science)
Time and Causality
1:45-2:25 Bob Rehder (NYU, Psychology)
A Generative Model of Conceptual Representation
2:30-3:10 Rohit Parikh (CUNY, CS, Math, Philosophy)
Knowledge, Information, and Causality
3:10-3:30 Coffee break
3:30-4:10 Michael Strevens (NYU, Philosophy)
The Foundations of Causality
4:15-4:55 Sanjoy Mitter (MIT, Electrical Engineering)
Causality and Feedback