Medical Diagnosis and Actual Causation

MARGHERITA BENZI

Medical Diagnosis and Actual Causation

Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza e Scienze Politiche, Economiche e Sociali

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Abstract

I suggest that some diagnoses can be seen as causal ex-planations based on “particulars” – instead of regularities – and on the notion of actual causation. Diagnoses based on case-based rea-soning provide a particularly vivid example.

Lingua originale	Inglese
pagine (da-a)	365-372
Numero di pagine	8
Rivista	LOGIC AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Volume	9
Numero di pubblicazione	1
Stato di pubblicazione	Pubblicato - 1 gen 2011

Keywords

Diagnosis
causality
philosophy of medicine

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Medical Diagnosis and Actual Causation

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