Invariance, mechanisms and epidemiology

Samuel Schindler

pp. 137-140

in: Dennis Dieks, Stephan Hartmann, Thomas Uebel, Marcel Weber, Wenceslao J. Gonzalez (eds), Explanation, prediction, and confirmation, Berlin, Springer, 2011

Abstract

In her paper "Causality and Explanation: issues from epidemiology", Raffaella Campaner tries to put forth a challenge to current philosophical accounts of explanation. Of the latter, Campaner finds most relevant to epidemiological practices the mechanistic accounts of Glennan and Machamer, Darden, and Craver and Woodward's interventionist account of explanation.

Cited authors

Campaner Raffaella