[WTI-trainee] APHINE Meeting, April 23th, 5:30PM "Causal Complexity in Psychiatric Genetics"

[Natalia Castelo Branco Matos]

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For this week’s journal club meeting, we are thrilled to announce that the
author of the paper will be joining us in person! Professor Lauren N. Ross is
an Associate Professor in the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science
at the University of California, Irvine. We’ll be discussing her recent
work on the lessons we can learn from the complexity of psychiatric
genetics.

Dinner will be provided at the end of our meeting, we hope to see you there!

  🎙️ Paper: 'Explanation in Contexts of Causal Complexity: Lessons from
Psychiatric Genetics'

  📅 Date: Wednesday April 23th, 2025

  🕒 Time: 5:30 - 6:30 PM

  📍 Location: 100 College Street, Room 1135


Abstract:


Over the past decade there have been increasingly common claims that
psychiatry is in a crisis. These claims often target the lack of known or
identifiable causal etiologies for psychiatric diseases, suggesting that
they are among the most intractable enigmas in medicine. While the
intractable nature of these disorders is often associated with their causal
complexity, it is not always clear exactly what is meant by this. How
should we understand causal complexity in this domain? How does it
challenge scientific efforts to understand and explain these diseases? This
paper addresses these questions by examining two main types of causal
complexity in psychiatry. My analysis clarifies what these types of causal
complexity are, how they challenge efforts to understand and explain these
disorders, and how scientists are working to overcome these challenges.


You can find the paper here:


https://philpapers.org/rec/ROSEIC-7
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