Description: Far from being the sole mode of explaining, explanation in terms of - mostly probabilistic - causes has nourished a wide debate addressing diseases, what produces them and how. Focusing on causal explanations involves, in turn, getting deeper into conceptions of causation, modelling, and control, and presents a range of relevant issues for research
Brief description: Raffaella Campaner is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Science at the Univ. of Bologna (since 2015), and Life Member of Clare Hall College, Univ. of Cambridge (since 2019). She has extensively worked on scientific explanation and causation, both in general philosophy of science and in philosophy of medicine. Among the volumes she authored, Spiegazioni e cause in medicina: un'indagine epistemologica (2005) and Philosophy of Medicine. Causality, Evidence and Explanation (2012).