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On Monday 15 March at 10:00, Niels Skovgaard-Olsen will speak at the Causal Inference Lab on conditionals and the hierarchy of causal queries. For more information, please click here.

To join the meeting, please click https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/84280955332

The Bias Barometer group at the University of Amsterdam will host a talk on Tuesday, 26 January at 14:00 on judgements of social groups. For more information, please click here https://bias-barometer.github.io/seminars_posts/judgement-of-social-groups/.

Commencing Friday 13 March 2020, all meetings of the Causal Inference Lab will move online, using the platform Zoom. Links to join the meetings of the reading group are available on the reading group homepage. This decision is taken in response to the recommendations of the Dutch government to stop the spread of the coronavirus in the Netherlands (read the recommendations here).

Dean will be giving a talk at the LIRA seminar on 5 March 2020 with a talk titled, Causality = time + modality + effective difference-making [slides]

We are pleased to announce that Katrin Schulz has been awarded a Open Competition grant, to work on the project "The Bias Barometer" together with Leendert van Maanen (UvA). For more information, see here or contact Katrin Schulz at  K.Schulz at uva.nl

Are you interested in interdisciplinary research and would you like to work in an interdisciplinary research institute? The ILLC is looking for an excellent PhD candidate who is interested in conducting research in an area within the ILLC that fits naturally in the Faculty of Science. See the full application page here.

Dean McHugh has won the Best Presentation prize at the 2019 ESSLLI student session for his work on the interaction between negation and alternatives in conditional antecedents. Click here to see the slides of his talk, and here to see his proceedings paper.

Robert van Rooij and Katrin Schulz's paper 'Generics and Typicality' has been published open access in Linguistics and Philosophy. Click here to read the paper!

On Monday, 20 May 2019 Sander Beckers will visit the Causal Inference Lab to speak about his work on defining actual causation (e.g. see https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-016-1247-1). Sander is currently a postdoc at the Utrecht department of philosophy, and will soon be joining the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy.

Check the reading group site for more information.