Pernu, Tuomas K. (2020) COVID-19 and Control: An Essay from a Pragmatic Perspective on Science. Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the COVID-19 Pandemic.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated how different (even conflicting) interventions on nature can be scientifically justified: interventions can be deemed "effective" only in relation to specific target variables - in relation to variables the values of which we seek to control. Choosing the "right" target variables, in turn, depends on our values and pragmatic aims. This essay is based on a presentation given at the symposium "Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the COVID-19 Pandemic", organised at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies on 16 June 2020.
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| Keywords: | causation; causal explanation; control; coronavirus; COVID-19; epidemiology; interventionism; pragmatism | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Causation Specific Sciences > Medicine > Epidemiology |
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| Depositing User: | Dr Tuomas K. Pernu | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 06 Feb 2021 21:19 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 07 Feb 2021 14:34 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 18689 | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the COVID-19 Pandemic | ||||||
| Publisher: | Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Causation Specific Sciences > Medicine > Epidemiology |
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| Date: | 2020 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/18689 |
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