Philosophy of Molecular Medicine

<p><i>Philosophy of Molecular Medicine: Foundational Issues in Theory and Practice</i> aims at a systematic investigation of a number of foundational issues in the field of molecular medicine. The volume is organized around four broad modules focusing respectively on the following key aspects: What are the nature scope and limits of molecular medicine? How does it provide explanations? How does it represent and model phenomena of interest? How does it infer new knowledge from data and experiments? The essays collected here authored by prominent scientists and philosophers of science focus on a handful of mainstream topics in the philosophical literature such as <i>causation</i> <i>explanation</i> <i>modeling</i> and <i>scientific inference</i>. These previously unpublished contributions shed new light on these traditional topics by integrating them with problems methods and results from three prominent areas of contemporary biomedical science: <i>basic research</i> <i>translational</i> and <i>clinical research</i> and <i>clinical practice</i>.</p>