Chapter Analogy-Based Inference Patterns in Pharmacological Research

• Yazar: Poellinger, Roland (auth)
• Materyal Türü: Elektronik Kitap Bölümü
• Dil: İngilizce
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Springer Nature 2020
• Konular: Pharmacology; scientific inference, pharmacology, epistemology, Bayesian confirmation, evidence, relevance, similarity, analogy, computer simulation
• Online Erişim: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Özet

Analogical arguments are ubiquitous vehicles of knowledge transfer in science and medicine. This paper outlines a Bayesian evidence-amalgamation framework for the purpose of formally exploring different analogy-based inference patterns with respect to their justification in pharmacological risk assessment. By relating formal explications of similarity, analogy, and analog simulation, three sources of confirmatory support for a causal hypothesis are distinguished in reconstruction: relevant studies, established causal knowledge, and computational models.

Fiziksel Özellikler

1 electronic resource (33 p.)

ISBN

978-3-030-29179-2_5
9783030291785

Erişim

Open Access