Experimental philosophy of medical explanation : why and how should we do it?
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- Erik Weber (UGent) and Bert Leuridan
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- The aim of this chapter is to understand why experimental philosophy of medical explanation can be important and to elaborate how it should be done to be philosophically interesting. It is structured around three theses. First: experimental philosophy of scientific explanation can legitimize normative philosophy of scientific explanation. Second: normative philosophy of scientific explanation can in turn establish the significance of the results of experimental philosophy of scientific explanation. The third thesis is the integrated application of theses 1 and 2 to medical explanation as a subclass of scientific explanation: Experimental philosophy of medical explanation and normative philosophy of medical explanation can benefit from each other. The former can legitimize the latter, while the latter can establish the significance of the results of the former. We elaborate two medical cases to support this conclusion: risk factor knowledge and genetic explanations of diseases.
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- Causal and non-causal explanation, causal selection, genetic explanation of diseases, interaction between experimental and normative philosophy medical explanation, risk factor knowledge
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8770587
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- Weber, Erik, and Bert Leuridan. “Experimental Philosophy of Medical Explanation : Why and How Should We Do It?” Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Medicine, edited by Krsitien Hens and Andreas de Block, Bloomsbury, 2023, pp. 129–50, doi:10.5040/9781350281554.ch-007.
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- Weber, E., & Leuridan, B. (2023). Experimental philosophy of medical explanation : why and how should we do it? In K. Hens & A. de Block (Eds.), Advances in experimental philosophy of medicine (pp. 129–150). https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350281554.ch-007
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- Weber, Erik, and Bert Leuridan. 2023. “Experimental Philosophy of Medical Explanation : Why and How Should We Do It?” In Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Medicine, edited by Krsitien Hens and Andreas de Block, 129–50. Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350281554.ch-007.
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- Weber, Erik, and Bert Leuridan. 2023. “Experimental Philosophy of Medical Explanation : Why and How Should We Do It?” In Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Medicine, ed by. Krsitien Hens and Andreas de Block, 129–150. Bloomsbury. doi:10.5040/9781350281554.ch-007.
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- 1.Weber E, Leuridan B. Experimental philosophy of medical explanation : why and how should we do it? In: Hens K, de Block A, editors. Advances in experimental philosophy of medicine. Bloomsbury; 2023. p. 129–50.
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- [1]E. Weber and B. Leuridan, “Experimental philosophy of medical explanation : why and how should we do it?,” in Advances in experimental philosophy of medicine, K. Hens and A. de Block, Eds. Bloomsbury, 2023, pp. 129–150.
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author = {{Weber, Erik and Leuridan, Bert}},
booktitle = {{Advances in experimental philosophy of medicine}},
editor = {{Hens, Krsitien and de Block, Andreas}},
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language = {{eng}},
pages = {{129--150}},
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year = {{2023}},
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