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Intro
Contents
Chapter 1: Scientific Explanation: Theoretical Issues and Practical Implications
1.1 Scientific Explanation and Explaining Disease
1.2 Explanatory Questions and Explanatory Relations: What We Explain, and How
1.3 Explanations and Their Contexts
1.3.1 Plurality and Pluralisms
1.3.2 Does the Context Make a Difference?
Chapter 2: Processes, Mechanisms, and Mechanistic Models
2.1 Mechanistic Approaches and Mechanisms in the Health Sciences
2.2 Mechanisms and Processes
2.3 From Epistemic to Ontic Explanation, and Back
Chapter 3: Causal Evidence and Causal Explanations
3.1 Causal Explanation and Kinds of Causal Evidence
3.2 What Counts as Causal Evidence, and Why It Matters: Some Hints from the History of Causal Assessment in the Health Sciences
3.2.1 History of Research on Cholera, and von Pettenkofer's "Lonesome Death"
3.2.2 The Zika virus. Causal Assessment and Causal Criteria
3.3 Causal Assessment and Theoretical (Mis-)Understanding
Chapter 4: Complexity and Integration
4.1 Explanation and Complexity: Some Philosophical Issues from Cancer Studies
4.2 Cancer as a Complex Disease
4.3 Integrative Clustering
4.4 Taming Complexity: Medical Tools and Philosophical Explorations
Chapter 5: Complexity and Resilience
5.1 A Mechanistic Explanatory Approach in the Mental Health Sciences: Promises and Limits
5.2 On Cognitive Reserve and Psychiatric Resilience
5.3 Psychiatric Resilience and Organization: Epistemological Challenges to Explanatory Practice
Chapter 6: Functions and Functional Explanations
6.1 On some Philosophical Approaches to Functions
6.2 Functional Explanations and Explaining Diseases
6.3 Functional Explanations and Explanatory Practice
Chapter 7: Interventionist Explanations
7.1 Woodward's Interventionist Account
7.2 Interventionist Explanations in the Health Sciences
7.3 Interventions, Actions, and (or?) Causes
7.3.1 Gillies' Action-Related Theory of Causality
7.3.2 Counterfactuals, Interventions and Causation
Chapter 8: Varieties of Pluralism: A Qualified Defence
8.1 Plurality, Pluralisms and the Health Sciences
8.2 Should We All Be Pluralist?
References
Index.
Contents
Chapter 1: Scientific Explanation: Theoretical Issues and Practical Implications
1.1 Scientific Explanation and Explaining Disease
1.2 Explanatory Questions and Explanatory Relations: What We Explain, and How
1.3 Explanations and Their Contexts
1.3.1 Plurality and Pluralisms
1.3.2 Does the Context Make a Difference?
Chapter 2: Processes, Mechanisms, and Mechanistic Models
2.1 Mechanistic Approaches and Mechanisms in the Health Sciences
2.2 Mechanisms and Processes
2.3 From Epistemic to Ontic Explanation, and Back
Chapter 3: Causal Evidence and Causal Explanations
3.1 Causal Explanation and Kinds of Causal Evidence
3.2 What Counts as Causal Evidence, and Why It Matters: Some Hints from the History of Causal Assessment in the Health Sciences
3.2.1 History of Research on Cholera, and von Pettenkofer's "Lonesome Death"
3.2.2 The Zika virus. Causal Assessment and Causal Criteria
3.3 Causal Assessment and Theoretical (Mis-)Understanding
Chapter 4: Complexity and Integration
4.1 Explanation and Complexity: Some Philosophical Issues from Cancer Studies
4.2 Cancer as a Complex Disease
4.3 Integrative Clustering
4.4 Taming Complexity: Medical Tools and Philosophical Explorations
Chapter 5: Complexity and Resilience
5.1 A Mechanistic Explanatory Approach in the Mental Health Sciences: Promises and Limits
5.2 On Cognitive Reserve and Psychiatric Resilience
5.3 Psychiatric Resilience and Organization: Epistemological Challenges to Explanatory Practice
Chapter 6: Functions and Functional Explanations
6.1 On some Philosophical Approaches to Functions
6.2 Functional Explanations and Explaining Diseases
6.3 Functional Explanations and Explanatory Practice
Chapter 7: Interventionist Explanations
7.1 Woodward's Interventionist Account
7.2 Interventionist Explanations in the Health Sciences
7.3 Interventions, Actions, and (or?) Causes
7.3.1 Gillies' Action-Related Theory of Causality
7.3.2 Counterfactuals, Interventions and Causation
Chapter 8: Varieties of Pluralism: A Qualified Defence
8.1 Plurality, Pluralisms and the Health Sciences
8.2 Should We All Be Pluralist?
References
Index.