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Call for papers:
CAUSALITY IN THE SCIENCES
A volume of papers on causality across the sciences edited by Phyllis McKay
Illari, Federica Russo and Jon Williamson under contract with Oxford
University Press
http://www.kent.ac.uk/secl/philosophy/jw/2009/cits/
This book will contain original research papers that deal with causality and
causal inference in the various sciences and with general questions
concerning the relationship between causality, probability and mechanisms.
TIMETABLE
1st July 2009: deadline for submission of full papers for publication to be
emailed to Phyllis McKay Illari ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) or Federica Russo
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
1st November 2009: notification of acceptance of papers for publication.
1st December 2009: deadline for final version of papers accepted for
publication.
THE VOLUME
The volume will run to about 600 pages and will be subdivided into the
following parts:
Introduction
Health Sciences
Social Sciences
Natural Sciences
Psychology and Neurosciences
Computer science and statistics
Causality, probability and mechanisms
ORGANISATION
This volume is organised by the Centre for Reasoning at the University of
Kent. It is associated with the Causality in the Sciences series of
conferences, and with the research project Mechanisms and Causality funded
by the Leverhulme Trust.
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Dr Federica Russo
Institut Supérieur de Philosophie
Université catholique de Louvain
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Office: +32 (0)10 474809
Mobile: +32 (0)495 602863
http://www.lofs.ucl.ac.be/fisc/staff/russo/default.htm
http://www.springer.com/978-1-4020-8816-2
http://www.kent.ac.uk/secl/philosophy/jw/cits.htm
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