[SydPhil] MuST10 Conference: Causation and Complexity (March 1-3)

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MuST10: Causation and Complexity
10th Munich-Sydney-Tilburg Conference in the Philosophy of Science
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March 1-3 2017
The University of Sydney

Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP), Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich
Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science (SCFS), University of Sydney
Tilburg Centre for Logic, Ethics and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS), University of Tilburg

In collaboration with the Centre for Complex Systems (CCS) University of Sydney

About the conference

Causation and Complexity is the tenth MuST conference, an international collaborative conference series with a distinctive focus on philosophical issues in the sciences that can be addressed using exact reasoning and which have some potential policy relevance. MuST conferences bring together philosophers and scientists to explore these topics.

Keynote speakers

Prof. Stuart Kauffman
One of the most distinguished scholars of complexity, Stuart Kauffman is the author of several acclaimed books, including The Origins of Order: Self Organization and Selection in Evolution (OUP 1993), At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity (OUP 1995), and Humanity in a Creative Universe (OUP 2016)

Prof. Anne-Marie Grisogono
Currently Professor at the Flinders Centre for Science Education in the 21st Century (Science21), Anne-Marie Grisogono spent more than twenty years as a researcher at Australia’s Defence Science and Technology Organisation applying complex systems science to the problems of understanding and intervening in large human organisations

Prof. Kevin Korb
Kevin Korb is a Reader in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University. He specialises in the theory and practice of causal discovery in Bayesian networks, machine learning, evaluation theory, the philosophy of scientific method, and informal logic.

Conference Program

The MuST10: Causation and Complexity Conference Program can be downloaded here<http://sydney.edu.au/foundations_of_science/documents/MuST10_Conference_Program.pdf>.

Organising Committee:

  *   Prof. Mikhail Prokopenko (CCS)
  *   Prof. Paul Griffiths (SCFS)
  *   Prof. Mark Colyvan (SCFS)
  *   Prof. Stephan Hartmann (MCMP)
  *   Prof. Jan Sprenger (TiLPS)

Registration
For further information and to register<http://sydney.edu.au/foundations_of_science/events/must10_reg.shtml>, visit the MuST 10 Conference<http://sydney.edu.au/foundations_of_science/events/must10.shtml> website.

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