Chapter 15 Epistemic Gains and Epistemic Games
In this paper I analyse the dissent around evidence standards in medicine and pharmacology as a result of distinct ways to address epistemic losses in our game with nature and the scientific ecosystem: an “elitist” and a “pluralist” approach. The former is focused on reliability as minimisation o...
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| description | In this paper I analyse the dissent around evidence standards in medicine
and pharmacology as a result of distinct ways to address epistemic losses in
our game with nature and the scientific ecosystem: an “elitist” and a “pluralist”
approach. The former is focused on reliability as minimisation of random and
systematic error, and is grounded on a categorical approach to causal assessment,
whereas the latter is more focused on the high context-sensitivity of causation in
medicine and in the soft sciences in general, and favours probabilistic approaches
to scientific inference, as better equipped for defeasibility of causal inference
in such domains. I then present a system for probabilistic causal assessment
from heterogenous evidence that makes justice of concerns from both positions,
while also incorporating “higher order evidence” (evidence/information about the
evidence itself) in hypothesis confirmation. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-715692025-05-08T05:07:09Z Chapter 15 Epistemic Gains and Epistemic Games Osimani, Barbara Uncertainty Management in Pharmacology, Causality,Medical Epistemology, evidence standards, random error, systematic error, extrapolation, relevance, bias In this paper I analyse the dissent around evidence standards in medicine and pharmacology as a result of distinct ways to address epistemic losses in our game with nature and the scientific ecosystem: an “elitist” and a “pluralist” approach. The former is focused on reliability as minimisation of random and systematic error, and is grounded on a categorical approach to causal assessment, whereas the latter is more focused on the high context-sensitivity of causation in medicine and in the soft sciences in general, and favours probabilistic approaches to scientific inference, as better equipped for defeasibility of causal inference in such domains. I then present a system for probabilistic causal assessment from heterogenous evidence that makes justice of concerns from both positions, while also incorporating “higher order evidence” (evidence/information about the evidence itself) in hypothesis confirmation. 2021-08-05T04:00:24Z 2021-08-05T04:00:24Z 2021-08-04T10:11:41Z 2020 chapter https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/50312 9783030291785 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/71569 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/50312/1/Osimani_2020%20Epi%20Games.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/50312/1/Osimani_2020%20Epi%20Games.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/50312/1/Osimani_2020%20Epi%20Games.pdf Springer Nature 10.1007/978-3-030-29179-2_15 10.1007/978-3-030-29179-2_15 9fa3421d-f917-4153-b9ab-fc337c396b5a Uncertainty in Pharmacology H2020 European Research Council 178e65b9-dd53-4922-b85c-0aaa74fce079 9783030291785 European Research Council (ERC) EU collection 28 639276 open access |
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| topic | Uncertainty Management in Pharmacology, Causality,Medical Epistemology, evidence standards, random error, systematic error, extrapolation, relevance, bias |
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