Alex Broadbent

Name:	Alex Broadbent
Affiliation:	Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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Public lists managed by Alex Broadbent

Talks given by Alex Broadbent

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• Causation and exceptions
• Causation, models of disease and epidemiology
• The new riddle of causation
• The difference between cause and condition

Talks organised by Alex Broadbent

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• The CCR5 gene patent: biomedicine, intellectual property and commerce in the United States
• Writing post-feminist history: female sexual dysfunction and biological psychiatry, 1960 to the present
• Respiratory physiology, experiment and Everest, from ghastly kitchens to gasping lungs
• Justice and automated match officiating
• Epistemic risk and public health science
• The solution to the problem of mental causation
• Dissolving a Darwinian dilemma for moral realism
• Ethics, risk and public works: models of optimal risk reduction
• Lessons from the history and philosophy of science for research assessment systems
• The credit crisis as a problem in the sociology of knowledge
• Toys in Monkeyland: the utility of anatomical models and medical expertise in late eighteenth-century Vienna
• Why expert judgment isn't evidence: a qualified defence of the EBM position
• Scavengers of nature: recycling in the history of science and medicine
• Description, design and aesthesis in the work of John Ray and contemporaries
• Picturability and the mathematical ideals of knowledge: Leibniz versus Newton
• Dynamic (bio)ontologies for good epistemology
• Learning things: the objects of familiar science in nineteenth-century Britain
• Social knowing
• A philosopher of science looks at medicine: do we 'need some large, simple randomized trials'?
• Dr Lauder Lindsay's lemmings: mad beasts and misanthropy in a Victorian asylum