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May 13
Recently presented in Rotterdam
Workshop Social mechanisms and social explanations 8 May, Rotterdam
Feb 13
Project: Mechanisms and the Evidence Hierarchy
UK Arts and Humanities Research Council project 2012 Brendan Clarke, Donald Gillies, Phyllis Illari, Federica Russo, Jon Williamson http://www.kent.ac.uk/secl/philosophy/jw/2012/mateh/ Evidence-based medicine is a relatively recent technique for supporting clinical decisions by the ‘conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence’ (Sackett et al. 1996. BMJ. 312: 71). This ‘best evidence’ usually has a very …
Feb 13
Conference: Evidence and Causality in the Sciences
5-7 September 2012 University of Kent, Canterbury, UK Organisers: Phyllis Illari and Federica Russo http://www.kent.ac.uk/secl/philosophy/jw/2012/ecits/ Causality is a vibrant and thriving topic in philosophy of science. It is closely related to many other challenging scientific concepts, such as probability and mechanisms, which arise in many different scientific contexts, in different fields. For example, they are …
Jan 17
Recently presented in Bielefeld
12-13 December. Workshop Magic and Medicine: Conceptions of Causality in Processes of Healing. ZiF, Bielefeld, Germany.
Jun 12
Now out!
Public health, evidence, and causation: Lessons from the studies on obesity, Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy DOI 10.1007/s11019-011-9335-y
Mar 23
It’s out!
Causality in the Sciences Phyllis Illari, Federica Russo, Jon Williamson (editors) Oxford University Press
Feb 10
Freshly published
Models for prediction, explanation, and control: Recursive Bayesian Networks. Theoria L. Casini, P. Illari, F. Russo, J. Williamson