Functional-Causal Explanation and Its Role in Designing Pharmacological Cardioprotective Therapies

• Authors: Tomasz Rzepiński

Title variants

PL

Wyjaśnianie funkcjonalno-przyczynowe i jego rola w projektowaniu farmakologicznych terapii kardioprotekcyjnych

EN

Functional-Causal Explanation and Its Role in Designing Pharmacological Cardioprotective Therapies

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

The purpose of the paper is to determine the structure of the functional explanations given in the process of designing pharmacological therapies in biological and medical sciences. The article shows that neither the classical models of functional explanation (presented by Hempel and Nagel) nor Cummins's functional analysis provide an adequate account. A brief discussion of these models becomes the point of departure for suggesting a functional-causal explanatory model (FP). The model is put to use in a reconstruction of the pharmacological cardioprotective therapy project.

• Publisher: University of Warsaw, Institute of Philosophy
• Journal: Filozofia Nauki
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 21
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 99-121

Dates

published

2013-09-01

Contributors

author

Tomasz Rzepiński