PUB - Publikationen an der Universität Bielefeld

This special issue collects papers presented at the first European Advanced Seminar in the Philosophy of the Life Sciences, which was held at Brocher Foundation in Hermance (Switzerland) in September 6-10, 2011. The Advanced Seminar brought together philosophers of the life sciences to discuss the topic of Causation and Disease. The introduction summarizes the results from this seminar. The search for causes of disease in the biomedical sciences, we argue on the basis of the contributions to this conference, has not resulted in a simplification and unification of biomedical knowledge, as once hoped for by philosophers of science, but rather in its complexification.