This reading group meets fortnightly on Mondays at 3pm–4pm in the Pavilion Meeting Room, Newnham College, and on Zoom.
Organised by Charlotte Zemmel (ccz23) and Ina Jäntgen (ij271).
Easter Term 2022
Aim: Discussing the challenges of statistical inferences involving thick concepts as well as foundational work in the philosophy of statistics.
2 May: Causal inference involving value-laden concepts
- Bright, Liam Kofi, Daniel Malinsky, and Morgan Thompson. 2016. 'Causally Interpreting Intersectionality Theory.' Philosophy of Science 83 (1): 60–81.
- Background reading: Kohler-Hausmann, Issa. 2019. 'Eddie Murphy and the Dangers of Counterfactual Causal Thinking About Detecting Racial Discrimination.' Northwestern University Law Review 113 (5): 1163–1228.
16 May: Causal inference involving value-laden concepts
Extended session: 3–5pm
- Ackermans, Lennart. 2022. 'Causal bias in measures of inequality of opportunity.' [manuscript] (draft will be shared in advance)
30 May: Foundational work in the philosophy of statistics
- Sprenger, Jan. 2016. 'Bayesianism vs. Frequentism in Statistical Inference.' In The Oxford Handbook of Probability and Philosophy, edited by Alan Hájek and Christopher Hitchcock, First edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
13 June: Foundational work in the philosophy of statistics
- Mayo, Deborah G. 1996. 'Toward an Error-Statistical Philosophy of Science.' In Error and the Growth of Experimental Knowledge, 442–64. University of Chicago Press.