sfl-cause/temptypac: Wolff 25/06/09

[Bridget Copley]

Le groupe de recherche sur la causalité dans le langage et la  
cognition du Laboratoire "Structures Formelles du Langage" et le  
projet "Temporalité: Typologie et Acquisition" (temptypac) de la  
Fédération "Typologie et Universaux Linguistiques" du CNRS ont le  
plaisir
d'annoncer un exposé:

"Absent Causes, Present Effects: How Omissions Cause Events"

Phillip WOLFF
Emory University

Résumé :

Results sometimes occur from absences, as when we say 'Lack of water  
caused the plant to wilt' or 'The absence of nicotine causes  
withdrawal'. The phenomenon of causation by omission has been viewed  
as an insurmountable problem for theories of causation that specify  
causation in terms of forces or energy but not for theories that  
specify causation in terms of statistical or counterfactual  
dependencies. In my talk, I describe a new account of causation that  
challenges this assumption. In the force theory, absences can be  
causal when they involve the removal or non-realization of a force,  
which then leads to an effect. Evidence in support of this account is  
provided in a series of experiments in which people classified complex  
3D animations depicting effects resulting from the removal of forces.  
The findings not only reconcile how causation by omission can be  
grounded in the physical world, but also how people designate which  
absences, amongst the potentially infinite number of absences, are  
causal.

lecture proposée:
Wolff, P. (2007) "Representing Causation," dans {Journal of  
Experimental Psychology: General}, Vol. 136, No. 1, 82–111.
http://listes.services.cnrs.fr/wws/d_read/sfl-cause/Wolff2007.pdf

Date : jeudi 25 juin 2009
Lieu : 59 rue Pouchet, salle 159
Heure : 14h00-16h00
Métro : ligne 13, Guy Moquet ou Brochant; RER C, Porte de Clichy,  
sortie rue de la Jonquière

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http://www.umr7023.cnrs.fr/article.php3?id_article=86

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http://www.umr7023.cnrs.fr/spip.php?rubrique215

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http://www.ivry.cnrs.fr/~7023web/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=31

Vous pouvez consulter l'agenda du laboratoire SFL à :
http://www.umr7023.cnrs.fr/spip.php?rubrique209
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