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Project

Interdisciplinarity, causation and explanatory pluralism in the biomedical sciences
Code
3G065107
Duration
01 January 2007 → 30 December 2012
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Evolutionary biology
    • General biology
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Theory and methodology of philosophy
    • Philosophy
    • Ethics
    • Other philosophy, ethics and religious studies not elsewhere classified
  • Social sciences
    • General pedagogical and educational sciences
    • Communication sciences
  • Medical and health sciences
    • Social medical sciences
Keywords
explanatory pluralism biomedical sciences interdisciplinarity causal pluralism philosophy of science Philosophy
 
Project description
 

Explanations of diseases can result from a biological, pshycological or social science approach. This project examines how these approaches relate to each other in the biomedical sciences. Should they be integrated? Are they, on the other hand, incompatible? Etc. We will address these questions by comparing the causal concepts, methdology and forms of explanation applied in these different approaches.