Thomas Icard: Causal Inference as a Logical Problem

Subscribe to the channel to get notified when we release a new video. Like the video to tell YouTube that you want more content like this on your feed. See our website for future seminars: https://sites.google.com/view/ocis/home Tuesday, Apr 07, 2026: Speaker: Thomas Icard (Stanford University) Zoom details: Zoom link (webinar ID: 968 8371 7451, password: 414559) Title: Causal Inference as a Logical Problem Abstract: The goal of this talk will be to show how problems of causal inference can be usefully and precisely understood as logical problems. Adapting tools and concepts from mathematical and computational logic affords new perspectives, raises new questions, and sheds light on some practical and theoretical issues in causal inference. We illustrate with several examples, including some ways in which a logical lens can help clarify the empirical status of assumptions sufficient to bridge gaps between limited data and substantive causal conclusions. Discussant: Jiji Zhang (Chinese University of Hong Kong)