Brian Hanley delivered a paper, "Mill’s Problem of Causal Selection," at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science

Brian Hanley is a philosophy graduate student at the University of Calgary. Brian's research examines causal reasoning in science and engineering, especially how engineers distinguish among and select important causal factors in order to solve complex problems. His work develops a pragmatic understanding of causal selection that analyzes how certain causes are selected for certain purposes, and why those causes serve those purposes.