In the first part of this course, we will discuss the following texts following the two main thematic blocks of the course:

• Craver, Carl, and James Tabery. "Mechanisms in science." (2015).

• Illari, P. M., & Williamson, J. (2012). What is a mechanism? Thinking about mechanisms across the sciences. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 2(1), 119-135.

• Ioannidis, S., & Psillos, S. (2017). In Defense of Methodological Mechanism: The Case of Apoptosis. Axiomathes, 27(6), 601-619.

• Kincaid, H. (2011). Causal Modeling, Mechanisms, and Probability in Epidemiology. Causality in the Sciences, 70-90.

• Russo, Federica, and Jon Williamson. "Interpreting causality in the health sciences." International studies in the philosophy of science 21.2 (2007): 157-170.

• Steel, D. (2004). Social mechanisms and causal inference. Philosophy of the social sciences, 34(1), 55-78.

• Wilde, Michael, and Veli-Pekka Parkkinen. "Extrapolation and the Russo–Williamson thesis." Synthese 196.8 (2019): 3251-3262.

Additional texts and references will be uploaded in the course platform.