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Dr. Leen De Vreese
Dr. Leen De Vreese
leen.devreese@ugent.be
Department
Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences
Research group(s)
CLPS - Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science
Curriculum Vitae
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Research Focus
Philosophy
Research Period
20th Century
Contemporary
Tabgroup
Projects
Projects as supervisor
Unification as an explanatory and epistemic value in scientific practice and theory
(
2009
-
2016
)
Projects as researcher
Varieties of causation in genetics
(
2014
-
2018
)
Scientific understanding in medicine
(
2011
-
2015
)
Pragmatic theory of scientific explanation
(
2009
-
2013
)
Interdisciplinarity, causation and explanatory pluralism in the biomedical sciences
(
2007
-
2010
)
Development of adaptive logics for the study of central topics in contemporary philosophy of science. Towards a new formal philosophy of science
(
2001
-
2008
)
Publications
Most recent publications
De Vreese, Leen. “Against the Disorder/Nondisorder Dichotomy.”
Defining Mental Disorder : Jerome Wakefield and His Critics
, edited by Luc Faucher and Denis Forest, MIT Press, 2021, pp. 97–107, doi:10.7551/mitpress/9949.003.0008.
De Vreese, Leen. “Van Emil Kraepelin Tot DSM-5 : Zoeken Naar de Ware Aard van Mentale Ziekten.”
ETHIEK & MAATSCHAPPIJ
, vol. 21, no. 1–2, 2019, pp. 79–108.
Weber, Erik, and Leen De Vreese. “Wat Is Een Goed Biomedisch Experiment? James Lind Revisited.”
ETHIEK & MAATSCHAPPIJ
, vol. 21, no. 1–2, 2019, pp. 35–52.
Weber, Erik, and Leen De Vreese. “Generic Causation.”
SAGE Research Methods Foundations
, edited by P. Atkinson et al., SAGE, 2019, pp. 1–13.
Lefere, Sander, et al. “What to Expect from Reliability and Validity Claims? A Pragmatic Conception of Psychiatric Nosology.”
JOURNAL OF EVALUATION IN CLINICAL PRACTICE
, vol. 23, no. 5, 2017, pp. 981–87, doi:10.1111/jep.12686.
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