Frederick Eberhardt

presentations & talks

Using Experiments to Discovery of Cyclic Causal Structures with Latent Variables -- presentation at NYU School of Medicine, April 2009.

Games with Nature -- presentation in the History & Philosophy of Science, and Medical Series, Washington University in St. Louis, April 2009.

The Principle of Common Cause in Human Learning -- presentation at the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology (SSPP), April 2009.

Causal Epistemology - The Need for Flexible Foundations -- presentation to the Townsend Working Group in Neuroscience and Philosophy, March 2009.

Causal Discovery as a Game -- poster presentation at the NIPS 2008 Workshop on Causality, December 2008.

Strategic Experimentation -- teleconference presentation to online causality reading group organized by N. Brodu and I. Guyon, December 2008.

Learning from Experiments -- presentation to the Working Group in the History and Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Science at University of California, Berkeley, September 2008.

Experiment! -- presentation at Washingtion University in St. Louis, February 2008.

Learning from Interventions -- presentation at the Causation Workshop at the University of Pittsburgh, January 2008.

Weak Interventions and Instrumental Variables -- poster at the NIPS workshop on Statistical Network Models in Whistler, BC, November 2007.

Interventions -- presentation at the Formal Epistemology Workshop at Carnegie Mellon University, May 2007.

Experiments, Interventions, and the Discovery of Multiple Causal Relations -- presentation at Tilburg University, Netherlands, March 2007.

Reliability via Synthetic A Priori - Hans Reichenbach's Doctoral Thesis -- Best Graduate Paper Award at the conference on Confirmation, Induction and Science at the London School of Economics, March 2007.

Feature Selection for Causal Reasoning -- presentation of work by Peter Spirtes and colleagues at the NIPS 2006 workshop on Causality and Feature Selection in Whistler, BC, December 2006.

Active Structure Search using Interventions -- presentation at the workshop on Large Graphical Models and Random Matrices of the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute, North Carolina, November 2006.

Causal Structure Search in Sequences of Experiments -- presentation to the Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, November 2006.

Causal Discovery using Interventions in the Presence of Latent Variables -- presentation at the 25th Biennial Meeting of the Society for Multivariate Analysis in the Behavioural Sciences (SMABS), jointly held with the 2nd Conference of the European Association of Methodology (EAM) in Budapest, July 2006.

Sufficient Condition for Pooling Data from different Distributions -- presentation at the first Symposium on Philosophy, History, and Methodology of ERROR at Virginia Tech, June 2006.

Error Rates for Strategies using Sequences of Experiments to Discover the Causal Structure -- poster presentation at the North Eastern Student Colloquium on Artificial Intelligence (NESCAI) at Cornell, April 2006.

N-1 Experiments Suffice to Determine the Causal Relations Among N Variables -- presentation at the Formal Epistemology Workshop in Austin, May 2005.