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I am a full professor at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Bergen. My PhD is from the University of Bern, Switzerland (2005). I work on questions in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of logic, in particular, on causation, mechanistic constitution, and logical formalization. My 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, mechanistic constitution, non-reductive physicalism, epiphenomenalism, determinism, logical formalization, argument reconstruction/evaluation, modeling in the social sciences, QCA, and the slingshot argument.

Articles (peer-reviewed)

A.T. Kelley, M.A. Incze , M. Baumgartner, A.N.C Campbell, E.V. Nunes , D.O. Scharfstein (2024), , Drug Alcohol Depend, Volume 260, doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2024.111368.

M. Baumgartner and C. Falk (forthcoming), , Journal of Causal Inference.

M. Baumgartner and L. Casini (forthcoming), , Ergo.

M. Swiatczak and M. Baumgartner (2024), , Sociological Methods & Research, doi: 10.1177/00491241241227039.

L. Casini and M. Baumgartner (2023), , The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 74(2), 405-429. doi: 10.1086/714820. ;

M. Baumgartner and C. Falk (2023), , The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 74(1), 171-197, doi: 10.1093/bjps/axz047. ;

M. Baumgartner and C. Falk (2023), , Multivariate Behavioral Research 58:2, 292-310. ;

V.P. Parkkinen and M. Baumgartner (2023), , Sociological Methods & Research 52(1), 176–208. doi: 10.1177/0049124120986200

M. Baumgartner (2022), , Quality & Quantity 56, 1939–1963, doi: 10.1007/s11135-021-01157-z

M. Baumgartner and M. Ambühl (2021), , Sociological Methods & Research. doi: 10.1177/0049124121995554 ; .

R.G. Whitaker, N. Sperber, M. Baumgartner, et al. (2020) , Implementation Science 15, 108 (2020).

M. Baumgartner and M. Ambühl (2020), , Political Science Research and Methods 8, 526-542, doi: 10.1017/psrm.2018.45. Replication material at ;

M. Baumgartner and A. Thiem (2020), , Sociological Methods & Research 49, 279–311, doi: 10.1177/0049124117701487.

M. Baumgartner, L. Casini, and B. Krickel (2018), , Erkenntnis, doi: 10.1007/s10670-018-0033-5. 

M. Baumgartner (2018), , The Australasian Journal of Philosophy96, 335-350, doi: 10.1080/00048402.2017.1328451.

M. Baumgartner and W. Wilutzky (2017), , Philosophical Psychology30, 1104-1125, doi: 10.1080/09515089.2017.1355453. 

M. Baumgartner (2017), , The Australasian Journal of Philosophy, doi: 10.1080/00048402.2017.1328451.

M. Baumgartner and A. Thiem (2017), , Sociological Methods & Research, doi: 10.1177/0049124117701487.

M. Baumgartner and L. Casini (2017), , Philosophy of Science84, 214-233, doi: 10.1086/690716 

A. Thiem and M. Baumgartner (2016), , Sociological Methodology46, 345-357, doi: 10.1177/0081175016654736.

A. Thiem and M. Baumgartner (2016), , Comparative Political Studies49, 801-806.

A. Thiem, M. Baumgartner and D. Bol (2016), , Comparative Political Studies49, 742-774.

M. Baumgartner and A. Gebharter (2016), , The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science67, 731-756. 

M. Baumgartner and A. Thiem (2015), , Sociological Methods & Research, doi: 10.1177/0049124115610351.

M. Baumgartner and A. Thiem (2015), , The R Journal7, 176-184. 

M. Baumgartner (2015), , Quality & Quantity49, 839-856. 

M. Baumgartner (2014), , Synthese191, 1349-1373. 

M. Baumgartner and R. Epple (2014), , Sociological Methods & Research43, 280-312. 

M. Baumgartner (2013), , Erkenntnis78, 85-109. 

M. Baumgartner and I. Drouet (2013), , European Journal for Philosophy of Science3, 183-205. 

M. Baumgartner (2013), , Dialectica67, 1-27. 

M. Baumgartner (2013), , Field Methods25, 3-24. M. Baumgartner and L. Glynn (2013), , Erkenntnis78, 1-8.

M. Baumgartner (2012), , Philosophia40, 751-761. 

U. Hofmann and M. Baumgartner (2011), , Theoria26, 155-176.

M. Baumgartner (2010), , Journal of Philosophical Logic39, 531-556. 

M. Baumgartner (2010), , Canadian Journal of Philosophy40, 359-383. 

T. Lampert and M. Baumgartner (2010), , Grazer Philosophische Studien80, 79-109. 

M. Baumgartner (2010), , Erkenntnis72, 111-133. 

M. Baumgartner (2009), , Synthese170, 71-96. 

M. Baumgartner (2009), , Dialectica63, 175-194. 

M. Baumgartner (2009), , International Studies in the Philosophy of Science23, 161-178. 

M. Baumgartner (2009), , Sociological Methods & Research38, 71-101. 

M. Baumgartner (2008), , Philosophia36, 327-354. 

M. Baumgartner (2008), , Erkenntnis69, 201-226. 

M. Baumgartner and T. Lampert (2008), , Synthese164, 93-115. 

Articles (invited)

M. Baumgartner (2020), , in: The SAGE Handbook of Political Science, ed. by D. Berg-Schlosser, B. Badie, and L. Morlino, London: SAGE, pp. 305–321.

M. Baumgartner and M. Ambühl (2019), cna: An R Package for Configurational Causal Inference and Modeling. R package vignette: The Comprehensive R Archive Network. .

A. Thiem and M. Baumgartner (2016), , Version 1.0. In: Thiem, Alrik. QCApro: Professional Functionality for Performing and Evaluating Qualitative Comparative Analysis, R Package Version 1.1-0. URL: http://cran.r-project.org/package=QCApro.

M. Baumgartner (2010), , in: Ding und Begriff, ed. by S. Conrad and S. Imhof, Ontos Verlag, Frankfurt.

M. Baumgartner (2007), Probleme einer theoretischen Analyse der Kausalrelation, in: N. Kersten u. U. Rose, Kausales Schliessen auf der Grundlage von Beobachtungsstudien, BAUA, Dortmund, 16-34.

M. Baumgartner (2006), 'Kausalität', in: Neues Handbuch philosophischer Grundbegriffe, hg. v. Armin G. Wildfeuer und Petra Kolmer, Karl Alber.Software

Software

M. Ambuehl and M. Baumgartner. (2020), cnaOpt: Optimizing Consistency and Coverage in Configurational Causal Modeling. R package version 0.2.0. URL: .

M. Ambuehl and M. Baumgartner. (2021), cna: Causal Modeling with Coincidence Analysis. R package version 3.1.0. URL: .

Monographs

M. Baumgartner and G. Grasshoff, Kausalität und kausales Schliessen. Eine Einführung mit interaktiven Übungen, Bern Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, Bern, 2004.

M. Baumgartner, , PhD-thesis, University of Bern, 2006.

Special Journal Issue

M. Baumgartner and L. Glynn (eds.), Actual Causation, special issue of Erkenntnis, vol. 78, issue 1 supplement, 2013.

Book reviews

M. Baumgartner (2017), , Metascience. 

M. Baumgartner (2017), , The Australasian Journal of Philosophy.