BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240329T124149Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200716T050000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200717T130000 SUMMARY:Evidential Pluralism and the Social Sciences UID:20240329T124149Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:University of Kent\, Canterbury\, United Kingdom DESCRIPTION:
To what extent do the social sciences require diversity of evidence? This conference aims to explore epistemic diversity in the social sciences.
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Evidential Pluralism \;provides one example of an account of epistemic diversity. Evidential Pluralism maintains that in order to establish a causal claim one normally needs to establish the existence of an appropriate correlation and the existence of an appropriate mechanism complex\, so when assessing a causal claim one ought to consider both association studies and mechanistic studies. This thesis has led to fruitful philosophical work on the role of mechanisms in the biomedical sciences and to suggestions for improvements to evidence-based medicine (&lsquo\;EBM+&rsquo\;). The question arises as to whether it can also be applied to the social sciences.
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The questions to be addressed include (but not limited to):
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