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CfP special issue of Topoi on "Foundations of Clinical Reasoning", Deadline: 31 Aug 2017

Call For Papers

*Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy*

Special Issue:* ?Foundations of Clinical Reasoning: An Epistemological 
Stance?*

*Guest Editors:*

Mattia Andreoletti (Campus IFOM-IEO, Milan)
Paola Berchialla (University of Turin)
Giovanni Boniolo (University of Ferrara)
Daniele Chiffi (Tallinn University of Technology)

*Overview:*

Among the most discussed epistemological issues in clinical reasoning is 
the problem of the external validity. Considered as one of the most 
urgent, this problem arises from the fact that the results of the 
Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) are seldom applied to the whole 
reference population, which is identified with people needing a medical 
treatment.

    Once verified that the results of an RCT are valid, we still have to 
explain how to apply these results to patients who did not take part in 
the experiment. As a matter of fact, several individuals who present 
particular features are excluded from the groups of patients selected for 
the experiment. Therefore, how can we justify the belief that a certain 
treatment has the same effect when applied to a different setting? Without 
a reasonable answer to this latter question, RCTs would prove less 
helpful, as they would only show the results related to a particular 
situation, without any guarantee that the same results could apply to 
other contexts. The possible advantages of a Bayesian perspective on RCTs 
will be explored.

      Finally, even if a way to apply population-based knowledge to a 
specific case is acknowledged, in order to choose a suitable treatment for 
a patient, diagnostic and prognostic judgements are traditionally 
essential. Both diagnosis and prognosis always occur behind a veil of 
uncertainty, nonetheless they seem to convey different forms of 
uncertainty. The concept of diagnosis is, in fact, usually affected by the 
inductive risk of error, while prognosis seems more likely to be 
associated with fundamental uncertainty towards a future condition, which 
may be difficult to probabilistically compute.

  *Possible Topics include (but are not limited to):*

-          Logic and Epistemology of Clinical Reasoning

-          External Validity of RCTs

-          Bayesian Forms of Clinical Reasoning

-          Diagnosis and Inductive Risk of Error

-          Prognosis and Severe Uncertainty



*Invited Contributors:*

Ileana Baldi (University of Padua)

Margherita Benzi (University of Eastern Piedmont)

Pierdaniele Giaretta (University of Padua)

Sydney Katherine Green (University of Antwerp)

François Pellet (University of Münster)

Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen (Tallinn University of Technology)

Federica Russo (University of Amsterdam)

Donald Stanley (Maine Medical Center, Portland Maine)



*Submission guidelines:*

Contributions must be original and not submitted elsewhere. Papers must be
in English and should not exceed 8,000 words (references and footnotes
included). Each submission should also include a separate title page
containing contact details, a brief abstract and a list of keywords for
indexing purposes. All papers will be subject to double-blind peer-review,
following international standard practices. Manuscripts should be submitted
exclusively through the Online Manuscript Submission System (Editorial
Manager), accessible at http://www.editorialmanager.com/topo/. Please save
your manuscript in one of the formats supported by the system (e.g., Word,
WordPerfect, RTF, TXT, LATEX2e, TEX, Postscript, etc.), which does NOT
include PDF. Make sure to select the appropriate article type for your
submission by selecting: S.I. Foundations clinical reasoning
(Andreoletti/Berchialla/Boniolo/Chiffi) as the appropriate tab from the
scroll-down menu.



*Deadline for submissions: August 31, 2017*



*For any further information please contact:*

Mattia Andreoletti (mattia.andreoletti@ieo.eu); Paola Berchialla ( 
paola.berchialla@unito.it); Giovanni Boniolo (giovanni.boniolo@unife.it); 
Daniele Chiffi ( chiffidaniele@gmail.com)
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