Causal Inference Lab

Output


Publications

2023

  • Dean McHugh (2023), Causation and Modality. University of Amsterdam PhD Thesis. [pdf]
  • Dean McHugh (2022), Exhaustification in the semantics of cause and because. Glossa Special Collection [doi] [preprint

2022

  • Dean McHugh (2022), Aboutness and Modality. Proceedings of the 2022 Amsterdam Colloquium. [proceedings paper] [poster]

  • Dean McHugh (2022), Imagining a different world: defining sufficiency using truthmaker semantics. Logic4Peace, 23 April 2022. [slides]

2021

  • Ivar Kolvoort, Zachary Davis, Leendert van Maanen & Bob Rehder. (2021), Variability in Causal Reasoning. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
  • Robert van Rooij & Katrin Schulz (2021), Causal Relevance: Semantics or Pragmatics? Causality even for Even-if conditionals. Forthcoming in Linguistic Vanguard.
  • Robert van Rooij & Katrin Schulz (2021), Why those biscuits are relevant and on the sideboard. Theoria [doi:10.1111/theo.12309]

  • Robert van Rooij & Katrin Schulz (2021), A causal power semantics for generic sentences. Topoi 40(1) [doi:10.1007/s11245-019-09663-4]

2020

2019

  • Dean McHugh & Alexandre Cremers (2019). Negation and alternatives in conditional antecedents. Proceedings of the 22nd Amsterdam Colloquium [link]
  • Katrin Schulz, Kaibo Xie, Sonja Smets & Fernando Velazquez Quesada (2019). A logical and empirical study of right-nested counterfactuals. Proceedings of Logic, Rationality, and Interaction; 7th International Workshop (LNCS, volume 11813) [pdfhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-60292-8_19
  • Robert van Rooij & Katrin Schulz (2019). Conditionals, causality and conditional probability. Journal of Logic, Language and Information (28) 55. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10849-018-9275-5
  • Robert van Rooij & Katrin Schulz (2019). Generic sentences: representativeness or causality? Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 23 https://semanticsarchive.net/Archive/Tg3ZGI2M/Vanrooij.pdf
  • Dean McHugh (2019). A problem for downward closure in the semantics of counterfactuals. Proceedings of the 2019 ESSLLI Student Session [paper]

2018

 

Talks

2024

  • Dean McHugh, New experimental evidence against the similarity approach to conditionals. Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 34, Rochester New York, 28–30 May 2024 [Abstract]
  • Dean McHugh, Modality Disordered. Linguae Seminar, Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris. 21 March 2024. [Abstract]
  • Dean McHugh, A dyanamic interpretation of structural causal models. COCOA Seminar, 9 February 2024 [Abstract] [Slides]
  • Dean McHugh, Conditional perfection in the semantics of causal claims. Humboldt University, Berlin, 18 January 2024. [Abstract] [Slides]

2023

2022

  • Dean McHugh, Imagining a different world: defining sufficiency using truthmaker semantics. Logic4Peace, April 2022. [abstract]

2021

  • Dean McHugh, Exhaustification in the semantics of cause and because. MLC Seminar, ILLC, 5 November 2021. [handout]
  • Dean McHugh, ‘Because’ lexicalizes a focus-sensitive exh operator that violates Economy. Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) 44, 15 April 2021. [link]
  • Dean McHugh, Negation and counterfactuals in conditional antecedents, University College London seminar on conditionals, 26 February 2021. [slides]

  • Dean McHugh, Newcomb's Problem: An Introduction to Decision Theory. Phi-Math Reading Group, ILLC, University of Amsterdam. [slides] 

2020

  • Dean McHugh, Downward Left Monotonicity in the Causal Domain (18 December 2020). Second Tsinghua Interdisciplinary Workshop on Logic, Language, and Mea