Scientific understanding in medicine

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2011 - 2015 (completed)

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Analysis of 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. In addition also the implications of theseĀ findings for some actual debates in the philosophy of medicine will be analysed.

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