| Event date | October 06, 2025 - October 07, 2025 |
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| Submission deadline | July 15, 2025 |
| Location | Kraków, Poland, |
| Host(s) | The Institute of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University |
| Event website/information | For more info, please email mariusz.maziarz@uj.edu.pl |
Call for abstracts:
Workshop “Philosophy of Causal Inference in Economics” The Institute of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, 6th – 7th October 2025 Grodzka 52, Kraków, Poland,
The workshop “Philosophy of Causal Inference in Economics”, organized jointly by the Institute of Philosophy at Jagiellonian University and the Polish Philosophy of Economics Network, aims to create a forum for exchanging philosophical arguments related to the philosophical and methodological issues of causal inference in economics, as well as the application of causal claims in economic policy-making.
Keynote lectures will be presented by:
- Tobias Henschen,
- Jaakko Kuorikoski.
Understanding causality is essential for effective action in the world. Estimating treatment effects, that is, the effects of policy or clinical interventions, is one of the main hurdles with which researchers struggle. Economics is one of the disciplines where causal inference is particularly difficult. Microeconomists struggle with economic agents that may change their behavior when participating in laboratory experiments or randomized field experiments. Macroeconomists are, in principle, unable to experiment on their domain and limit their research to theoretical conjectures or observational statistical research.
We specifically invite contributions addressing the following questions:
- What are the causal relations in the economy?
- What concept of causality is adequate for economics?
- What causal epistemology is most suitable for the economic sciences?
- What are the philosophical issues surrounding randomized field experiments? When is it warranted to extrapolate experimental results in economics?
- What evidentiary standards should be applied in macroeconomics and other fields where conducting interventional studies is infeasible?
- What philosophical problems arise in the implementation of economic policy?
Submit abstracts of no more than 500 words (including references) as an attachment without author details. Please send them by email with the subject ‘abstract submission’ to: mariusz.maziarz@uj.edu.pl
Deadline for submission: 15th July 2025
Decisions will be announced by 1st August 2025.
Decisions will be announced by 1st August 2025.
This activity was supported by a grant funded by the Strategic Program Excellence Initiative at the Jagiellonian University