Michael Baumgartner
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Michael
Baumgartner is currently a lecturer and postdoctoral research associate
at the
University of Konstanz, Germany. From 2008 to 2009 he was a member of
the philosophy of language research group meaning.ch
at the University Bern. From 2007 to 2008 he was a Visiting
Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science of the University of
Pittsburgh. In 2005 he earned his
doctorate at the University of Bern, Switzerland, with a dissertation
on causation entitled "Complex Causal Structures". His publications
include an introduction to the philosophy of causation entitled
"Kausalitaet und kausales Schliessen" (2004) and numerous papers on causation, causal reasoning, regularity
theories, interventionism, non-reductive physicalism, epiphenomenalism, determinism, logical formalization, and the slingshot argument.