Project

Scientific understanding in medicine

Code

01P14811

Duration

01 October 2011 → 30 September 2015

Funding

Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund

Promotor

Erik Weber

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

causal explanations scientific understanding philosophy of medicine

Project description

I will analyze how medical science tries to achieve scientific understanding of health problems by investigating (1) the characteristics, necessity and peculiarities of scientific understanding in medicine, and (2) how medical scientists try to make sense of disease states for which (part of) the causal information is missing.