Sökning: "Richard Dawid"
Hittade 3 avhandlingar innehållade orden Richard Dawid.
1. Reassessing Realism : On the Ontology of the Unobservable
Sammanfattning : It is widely believed that science is in the business of finding out what the world is really like. The philosophical version of this belief is scientific realism -- a doctrine about science that tells us that we ought to believe that the best theories in science are true, and that the world is occupied with the objects that those theories contain. LÄS MER
2. Taking Control : The role of manipulation in theories of causation
Sammanfattning : Causation has always been a philosophically controversial subject matter. While David Hume’s empiricist account of causation has been the dominant influence in analytic philosophy and science during modern times, a minority view has instead connected causation essentially to agency and manipulation. LÄS MER
3. Measuring Health : On the Theoretical Foundations of Health Status Evaluations
Sammanfattning : This thesis is about the notions of health and pathology in medical theory. I develop a theory, which defines ‘health’ and ‘pathology’ in a way that solves several problems with earlier suggestions of how to define these terms. I call the theory ‘the disposition profile efficiency theory’, abbreviated ‘the DPE-theory’. LÄS MER