Dr. Naftali Weinberger

Personal Information

Naftali Weinberger is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2015 and has previously done research at the Pittsburgh Center for Philosophy of Science and the Tilburg Center for Logic, Ethics, and Philosophy of Science.

Research Interests

Naftali uses recently developed causal modeling methods to address foundational questions concerning causal inference and explanation. He has written about the role of causation in a wide range of sciences including: population genetics, psychometrics, neuroscience, and economics. He currently has an ongoing project regarding causation in complex dynamical systems as well as a separate project on causally modeling discrimination.

See this podcast episode for more information on causation and complexity. An overview of his approach to discrimination can be found here.

Selected Publications

1. Weinberger, N., Williams, P. and Woodward, J. (forthcoming) "The Worldly Infrastructure of Causation" The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
2. Weinberger, N. (Forthcoming). "The Insufficiency of Statistics for Detecting Racial Discrimination by Police" Philosophy of Science. http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/22315/
3. Weinberger, N. (2023) "Signal Manipulation and the Causal Analysis of Racial Discrimination" Ergo. https://doi.org/10.3998/ergo.2915
4. Weinberger, N. and Allen, C. (2022) "Static-Dynamic Hybridity in Dynamical Models of Cognition" Philosophy of Science, Volume 89, Issue 2, April 2022, pp. 283 - 301.
5. Weinberger, N. (2022) "Comparing Pearl and Rubin's Causal Modeling Frameworks: A Commentary on Markus (2021)" Economics and Philosophy. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266267121000353
6. Weinberger, N. (2021) "Intervening and Letting Go: On the Adequacy of Equilibrium Causal Models" Erkenntnis. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-021-00463-0
7. Weinberger, N. (2020) "Near-Decomposability and the Time-Scale Relativity of Causal Representations" Philosophy of Science, 87 pp. 841–856.
8. Weinberger, N. (2019) "Path-Specific Effects" The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Volume 70, No 1, 53–76.
9. Weinberger, N. (2018) "Faithfulness, Coordination, and Causal Coincidences" Erkenntnis 83 (2): 113-133.
10. Forster, M., Raskutti, G., Stern, R., and Weinberger, N. (2018) "The Frugal Inference of Causal Relations" The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 69 (3): 821-848.