[FOM] Volume: Causality in the sciences

[Jon Williamson]

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.

Some chapters will be invited contributions; others will be submitted to a
call for papers. All papers will be subject to a reviewing process.



TIMETABLE

1st July 2009: deadline for submission of full papers for publication
to be emailed to Phyllis McKay Illari (P.McKay at kent.ac.uk) or Federica Russo
(F.Russo at kent.ac.uk)
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.



all the best,
Jon
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Jon Williamson
http://www.kent.ac.uk/secl/philosophy/jw/
Philosophy, SECL, University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NF, UK