caa a22 4500 445798114 CHVBK 20180317145132.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11017-010-9166-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11017-010-9166-5 Campaner Raffaella Department of Philosophy, University of Bologna, Via Zamboni 38, 40126, Bologna, Italy aut Understanding mechanisms in the health sciences [Elektronische Daten] [Raffaella Campaner] This article focuses on the assessment of mechanistic relations with specific attention to medicine, where mechanistic models are widely employed. I first survey recent contributions in the philosophical literature on mechanistic causation, and then take issue with Federica Russo and Jon Williamson's thesis that two types of evidence, probabilistic and mechanistic, are at stake in the health sciences. I argue instead that a distinction should be drawn between previously acquired knowledge of mechanisms and yet-to-be-discovered knowledge of mechanisms and that both probabilistic evidence and manipulation are essential with respect to newly discovered mechanisms. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2010 Mechanisms nationallicence Causation nationallicence Evidence nationallicence Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics Springer Netherlands 32/1(2011-02-01), 5-17 1386-7415 32:1<5 2011 32 11017 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11017-010-9166-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11017-010-9166-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Campaner Raffaella Department of Philosophy, University of Bologna, Via Zamboni 38, 40126, Bologna, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics Springer Netherlands 32/1(2011-02-01), 5-17 1386-7415 32:1<5 2011 32 11017 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer