How to see the trees for the forest: introduction to a special issue on causation and disease.
This paper summarizes the results from the first European Advanced Seminar in the Philosophy of the Life Sciences, which was held at the Brocher Foundation in Hermance (Switzerland) 6-10 September 2011. The Advanced Seminar brought together philosophers of the life sciences to discuss the topic of "Causation and Disease." The search for causes of disease in the biomedical sciences, we argue on the basis of the contributions to this conference, has not resulted in a simplification and unification of biomedical knowledge, as once hoped for by philosophers of science, but rather in its "complexification."
University of Exeter, College of Humanities Amory Building, Rennes Drive, Exeter, Devon EX4 4RJ, United Kingdom.
Staffan
S
Müller-Wille
Maria
M
Kronfeldner
D015984:Causality; D004194:Disease / Q000209:etiology*; D019359:Knowledge; D010684:Philosophy