Today there is a talk by Eric Hiddleston (Syracuse) on Lawful v. Counterfactual Theories of Explanation (PDF); I intend to go because I've enjoyed much of Hiddleston's other work on causation. Causal Powers (also PDF) is especially good, and deserves to be more widely read.
UPDATE: The argument was interesting, but the presentation was poor. On the one hand, he gets points in my book for presenting rather than reading his paper; on the other, it might have been easier to follow certain elements of his presentation if he had kept closer to a script. Nonetheless, the primary interest was the argument, and, as I said, it was interesting.
