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Causation and the Conceptual Scheme of Medical Knowledge

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Science, Technology, and the Art of Medicine

Part of the book series: Philosophy and Medicine ((PHME,volume 44))

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Philosophers often find themselves in debt. Imre Lakatos, for example, borrows a formula from Kant in order to show how he can repay his larger debt to historians of science. He suggests that while “philosophy of science without history of science is empty, history of science without philosophy of science is blind” ([22], p. 91).1

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    Eric T. Juengst

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    Mary Ann Gardell Cutter

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Juengst, E.T. (1993). Causation and the Conceptual Scheme of Medical Knowledge. In: Delkeskamp-Hayes, C., Cutter, M.A.G. (eds) Science, Technology, and the Art of Medicine. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 44. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2960-4_8

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