Research

Areas of research

  • Philosophy of science: causation in scientific methods, philosophical bias in science, evidence and evidence base in science and society, barriers and solutions for interdisciplinary collaborations
  • Philosophy of medicine: person centred healthcare, evidence-based frameworks, evidence hierarchy, evidential pluralism
  • Ethics: research ethics, free will, determinism, responsibility
  • Metaphysics: causation, powers, dispositions, propensity, tendencies, emergence
  • Philosophy of logic: modality, conditionals, probability, truth functionality, logicism
  • Philosophy of language: conditionals, implicatures, meaning, pragmatics versus semantics

Trans-disciplinary research and research networks

CauseHealth – Causation, Complexity and Evidence in Health Sciencesfunded by FRIPRO, NMBU 2015-2019

CauseHealth Pharmacovigilance, funded by WHO’s Uppsala Monitoring Centre, NMBU 2018-2021

Some links

Photo: UMC, 40th anniversary conference, WHO Uppsala Monitoring Centre