title: Causation in evidence-based medicine: in reply to Kerry et al.
abstract: Kerry et al. criticize our discussion of causal knowledge in evidence-based medicine (EBM) and our assessment of the relevance of their dispositionalist ontology for EBM. Three issues need to be addressed in response: (1) problems concerning transfer of causal knowledge across heterogeneous contexts; (2) how predictions about the effects of individual treatments based on population-level evidence from RCTs are fallible; and (3) the relevance of ontological theories like dispositionalism for EBM.
authors: Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
authors: Anders
authors: A
authors: Strand
authors: Veli-Pekka
authors: VP
authors: Parkkinen
mesh_terms: D015984:Causality; D055317:Evidence-Based Practice; D006801:Humans
keywords: causality; epistemology; evidence-based medicine