Causal Inference Lab

Output

Dean McHugh (2024). Figure and Ground in Conditionals. [draft]
Dean McHugh (2024). New experimental evidence against the similarity approach to conditionals. In preparation for Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 2024. [draft]
Dean McHugh (2024). On the nature of reasons. Under review [draft]
Dean McHugh (2024). Disjunctions of universal modals and conditionals. Under review [draft]
Dean McHugh (2024). An analysis of difference-making. Under review [draft]

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

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]

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]

Ivar Kolvoort, Soren Wainio-Theberge, Annemarie Wolff & Georg Northoff (2020), Temporal integration as “common currency” of brain and self‐scale‐free activity in resting‐state EEG correlates with temporal delay effects on self‐relatedness. Human Brain Mapping 41(15) [doi:10.1002/hbm.25129]
Dean McHugh (2020), Are Causes Ever Too Strong? Downward Monotonicity in the Causal Domain. TLLM 2020: Monotonicity in Logic and Language https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-62843-0_7 [open access preprint]
Robert van Rooij & Katrin Schulz (2020), Conditionals as represenative inferences. Axiomathes https://doi.org/10.1007/s10516-020-09477-9
Arnold Kochari, Robert van Rooij & Katrin Schulz (2020). Generics and alternatives. Frontiers in Psychology 11, [1274]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01274
Robert van Rooij & Katrin Schulz (2020). Generics and typicality: a bounded rationality approach. Linguistics and Philosophy https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-019-09265-8

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) [pdf] https://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]

Robert van Rooij & Katrin Schulz (2019). Natural kinds and dispositions: A causal analysis. Synthese https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-019-02184-y

Dean McHugh (2018). Diagrammatic definitions of causal claims. Proceedings of Diagrammatic Representation and Inference 10, Lecture Notes in Computer Science volume 10871. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91376-6_32 [preprint]
Katrin Schulz (2018). The similarity approach strikes back. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22 https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/110

Dean McHugh & Tomasz Klochowicz, New Experimental Evidence against the Similarity Approach to Conditionals. University of Padua, 21 October 2024. [Slides]
Dean McHugh, Figure and Ground in Conditionals. COCOA Seminar, 11 October 2024. [Slides]
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] [Poster] [Lightning talk slides]
A Dynamic Interpretation of Structural Causal Models, Formal Methods and Science in Philosophy V, Dubrovnic, 16–18 May 2024 [Slides]
Dean McHugh, Wide scope simplification, TLLM IV, Beijing, 31 March 2024. [Slides] [Exchange slides]
Dean McHugh, Modality Disordered. Linguae Seminar, Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris. 21 March 2024. [Abstract] [Slides]
Dean McHugh, A dyanamic interpretation of structural causal models. COCOA Seminar, 9 February 2024 [Abstract] [Slides]
Dean McHugh, Conditional perfection in the