Elena Rocca

Philosopher of science at NMBU with a focus on philosophy of pharmacology, evidence and causation in the life sciences. Frequent co-author with entities/rani-lill-anjum.

Positions defended in this wiki

Co-author of Andersen, Anjum & Rocca 2019, "Philosophical bias is the one bias that science cannot avoid" (eLife) — the paper that underpins the course's account of concepts/philosophical-bias.
Joint teacher of PHI403 — Causation in Science at NMBU, covering concepts/regularity-theory-of-causation, concepts/interventionist-theory-of-causation, concepts/dispositionalism, concepts/mechanisms-in-science, concepts/probabilistic-causation, and critiques of the RCT evidence hierarchy.
Works on contextual / individual-level evidence in medicine, and the limits of population-level statistics (the ecological fallacy in RCTs).

Contributions in this wiki

sources/2023-anjum-rocca-phi403-causation-in-science — PHI403 course meta-source (20 lectures).

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