Philosophy of Medicine

This is a weekly reading group on Philosophy of Medicine. We meet on Thursdays from 15:00 to 16:30, via BBCollaborate.

Schedule

25/03/2021

  • Lohse, S., & Bschir, K. (2020). The COVID-19 pandemic: a case for epistemic pluralism in public health policy. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 42(4), 1-5.
  • Airoldi, G., & Vecchi, D. (2021). Evidence-based Policies? The Covid-19 Pandemic and the Prospects of Evidence Integration. Teorema, 40(1), 175-197.

31/03/2021

  • Stegenga, J. (2014). Down with the hierarchies. Topoi, 33(2), 313-322.
  • Aronson, J. K., Auker‐Howlett, D., Ghiara, V., Kelly, M. P., & Williamson, J. (2020). The use of mechanistic reasoning in assessing coronavirus interventions. Journal of evaluation in clinical practice.

15/04/2021

  • Maziarz, M., & Zach, M. (2020). Agent‐based modelling for SARS‐CoV‐2 epidemic prediction and intervention assessment: A methodological appraisal. Journal of evaluation in clinical practice, 26(5), 1352-1360.

22/04/2021

  • De Marchi, S., & Page, S. E. (2014). Agent-based models. Annual Review of political science17, 1-20.

07/05/2021

  • Runhardt, R. W. (2021). Evidential Pluralism and Epistemic Reliability in Political Science: Deciphering Contradictions between Process Tracing Methodologies. Philosophy of the Social Sciences.

13/05/2021

  • Leonelli, S. (2021). Data Science in Times of Pan(dem)ic . Harvard Data Science Review.

20/05/2021

  • Ellison, G. T. (2020). COVID-19 and the epistemology of epidemiological models at the dawn of AI. Annals of Human Biology, 47(6), 506-513.

Coordinators
Valeriano Iranzo (UV) and Saúl Pérez (UV)

Contact
Saúl Pérez-González (saul.perez@uv.es)

Funding
MECABIOSOC: Mecanismos en las Ciencias. De lo biológico a lo social (FFI2017-89639-P) and Leyes, explicación y realismo en ciencias físicas y biomédicas (FFI2016-76799-P)