Affiliated Research Scholars
Alex Broadbent
Research interests: Causation, especially causal selection, and especially in applied contexts such as the law and natural sciences; epistemology and metaphysics of the biomedical sciences; counterfactuals and inductive inference; metaphysics, epistemology and philosophy of science; jurisprudence.
Selected publications
- In press: 'Inferring causation in epidemiology: mechanisms, black boxes, and contrasts', Causality in the Sciences, volume under contract with Oxford University Press, edited by Phyllis McKay Illari, Federica Russo, and Jon Williamson. [360 KB PDF file]
- 'Fact and law in the causal inquiry', Legal Theory, 2009, in press. [300 KB PDF file]
- 'Causation and Models of Disease in Epidemiology', Studies in the History and Philosophy of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 2009, in press. [360 KB PDF file]
- 'For Analytic Bioethics', Clinical Ethics 2008, vol 3: pp. 185-188. [350 KB PDF file]
- 'A Note on Epidemiological Caution', letter to British Medical Journal 2008, online: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/335/7630/1116-b#191569
- 'The Difference Between Cause and Condition', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 2008, vol 108: pp. 355-364. [180 KB PDF file]
- 'Reversing the Counterfactual Analysis of Causation', International Journal of Philosophical Studies 2007, vol 15(2): pp. 169-189. [330 KB PDF file]