5.00 credits
30.0 h
Q1
This learning unit is not open to incoming exchange students!
Teacher(s)
Guay Alexandre; Van Bellegem Sébastien;
Language
English
Prerequisites
The prerequisite(s) for this Teaching Unit (Unité d’enseignement – UE) for the programmes/courses that offer this Teaching Unit are specified at the end of this sheet.
Content
- Scientific representation: point of view, quantification, idealization and approximation
- Probability and randomness
- Free will
- Modelling causality
- Modern applications in social sciences
- Causation = the action of laws?
- Causation = counterfactual dependance?
- Causation = manipulability?
- Causation = probability/statistical dependance?
- Causation and explanation
Evaluation methods
Oral exam and take home work
Online resources
See Moodle site
Faculty or entity
ESPO
