EXPERTISE: I am Research Fellow in Philosophy and founder of NMBU CAPS - Centre for Applied Philosophy of Science, where we work to engage students and staff in critical reflections over the philosophical foundations of science and research ethics. My specialisation is causation, probability, risk and complexity, and I'm particularly interested in relationship between philosophy and science.
TEACHING: I have served as member of the Norwegian National Research Ethics Committees since 2017, and the NMBU Ethics Committee since 2014. I now run the NMBU research ethics forum, with the PhD course MINA400 Research Education Across Disciplines, covering research ethics and philosophy of science. I am course responsible for MINA320 and MINA321 Interdisciplinarity and Expert Disagreement on Sustainability and PHI102 Examen Philosophicum (English). I use Twitter for networking.
RESEARCH: I first came to NMBU to lead the ‘Causation in Science’ FRIPRO research project from 2011-2014, which was followed by the CauseHealth FRIPRO project, ‘Causation, Complexity and Evidence in Health Sciences’, from 2015-2019. Together with Dr Elena Rocca, I led ‘CauseHealth Risk and Safety’ from 2019-2021, funded by WHO Uppsala Monitoring Centre. I'm now involved in research at CERAD - Centre for Environmental Radioactivity (CoE, NMBU) and SKATTEFORSK - Centre for Tax Research (NMBU).
BOOKS: I am co-author of Getting Causes from Powers (Oxford University Press 2011), Causation – A Very Short Introduction (OUP 2013), Causation in Science and the Methods of Scientific Discovery (OUP 2018), What Tends to Be (Routledge 2020) and Rethinking Causality, Complexity and Evidence for the Unique Patient (open access, Springer Nature 2020).
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Fagfelt
- Philosophy
- Philosophy of Science
- Research Ethics
- Causality
- Probability
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Publikasjoner
Books
Anjum, R. L., Copeland, S. and Rocca, E. (Eds) (2020) Rethinking Causality, Complexity and Evidence for the Unique Patient. A CauseHealth Resource for the Clinical Encounter, Springer
Nicholls, D., Groven, K.S., Kinsella, A. and Anjum, R.L. (Eds) (2020) Mobilizing Knowledge. Critical Reflections on the Foundations and Practice of Physiotherapy, Springer
Anjum, R. L. and Mumford, S. (2018) Causation in Science and the Methods of Scientific Discovery, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Anjum, R. L. and Mumford, S. (2018) What Tends to Be. The Philosophy of Dispositional Modality, London: Routledge
Mumford, S. and Anjum, R. L. (2013) Causation. A Very Short Introduction, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Mumford, S. and Anjum, R. L. (2011) Getting Causes from Powers, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Jørgensen, S. R. and Anjum, R. L. (eds) (2006) Tegn som Språk. En Antologi om Tegnspråk, Oslo: Gyldendal Akademisk
Selected articles
Anjum, R.L., Chandler, R.E. & Rocca, E. (2022) Dispositions and Causality Assessment in Pharmacovigilance: Proposing the Dx3 Approach for Assessing Causality with Small Data Sets. Pharm Med
Rocca, E. and Anjum, R.L. (2020) Causal Evidence and Dispositions in Medicine and Public Health, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Rocca, E. Anjum, R.L. and Mumford, S. (2020) Causal Insights from Failure, in A. La Caze and B. Osimani (eds), Uncertainty in Pharmacology: Epistemology, Methods and Decisions, Springer
Rocca, E. and Anjum, R. L. (2019) Why Causal Predictions Fail. An Example from Oil Contamination, Ethics, Policy & Environment
Andersen, R., Anjum, R.L. and Rocca, E. (2019) Philosophical bias is the one bias that science cannot avoid, eLife
Anjum, R. L. and Rocca, E. (2018) From Ideal to Real Risk. Why re-thinking Causation is Crucial, Risk Analysis
Anjum, R.L. and Mumford, S. (2018) Causation, Powers and Probability, in A. S. Meincke (ed.), Dispositionalism: Perspectives from Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science, Synthese Library, Springer
Anjum, R. L. (2018) What is the Guidelines Challenge? The CauseHealth Perspective, Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
Anjum, R.L. and Mumford, S. (2018) Powers and Potentiality, in M. Quante and K. Engelhard (eds), Handbook of Potentiality, Dordrecht: Springer
Anjum, R.L. and Mumford, S. (2018) A Process Theory of Causation, in Nicholson, D. J. & Dupré, J. (eds.). Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 61-75.
Anjum, R.L. and Mumford, S. (2017) A Philosophical Argument Against Evidence Based Policy, Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 23: 1045-50
Anjum, R.L. and Mumford, S. (2017) Emergence and Demergence, in M. Paoletti and F. Orilia (eds), Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives on Downward Causation, London: Routledge, pp. 92-109.
Anjum, R.L. and Mumford, S. (2017) Mutual Manifestations and Martin’s Two Triangles, in Jonathan Jacobs (ed.) Causal Powers, Oxford University Press, pp. 77-89.
Anjum, R.L. (2016) Evidence-Based or Person-Centered. An Ontological Debate, European Journal for Person Centered Healthcare, 4 (2): 421-9
Anjum, R.L., Copeland, S., Mumford, S. and Rocca, E. (2015) CauseHealth: Integrating Philosophical Perspectives into Person Centered Healthcare, European Journal for Person Centered Healthcare, 3: 427-30
Anjum, R.L., Kerry, R. and Mumford, S. (2015) Evidence Based on What?, Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 21(6): E11-E12
Mumford, S. and Anjum, R.L. (2015) Freedom and Control: On the Modality of Free Will, American Philosophical Quarterly, 52: 1-12
Mumford, S. and Anjum, R.L. (2014) Powers, Non-Consent and Freedom, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 91: 136-152
Mumford, S. and Anjum, R.L. (2014) A New Argument Against Compatibilism, Analysis, 74: 20-5
Mumford, S. and Anjum, R.L. (2014) The Irreducibility of Dispositionality, in R. Hüntelmann (ed.) New Scholasticism Meets Analytic Philosophy, Heusenstamm: Editiones Scholasticae: 105-28
Eriksen, T.E., Kerry, R., Lie, S.A.N., Mumford, S. and Anjum, R.L. (2013) At the Border of Medical Reasoning. Aetiological and Ontological Challenges of Medically Unexplained Symptoms, Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, 8: 1-11
Mumford, S. and Anjum, R.L. (2013) With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility, in M. Stepanians (ed.), Causation and Responsibility: Critical Essays, Berlin: de Gruyter: 217-35
Mumford, S. and Anjum, R.L. (2013) Causes as Powers. Book Symposium on Getting Causes from Powers, Metascience, 22: 554-9
Kerry, R., Eriksen, T.E., Lie, S.A.N., Mumford, S. and Anjum, R.L. (2012) Causation and Evidence-Based Practice: An Ontological Review, Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice: Special Issue on the Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care 18: 1006-12
Anjum, R.L., Lie, S.A. and Mumford, S. (2012) Dispositions and Ethics, in R. Groff and J. Greco (eds) Powers and Capacities in Philosophy: The New Aristotelianism, New York and London: Routledge: 9-24
Mumford, S. and Anjum, R.L. (2011) Causal Dispositionalism’, in A. Bird and H. Sankey (eds), Properties, Powers and Structures: Issues in the Metaphysics of Realism, Routledge 2011, 91-107
Mumford, S. and Anjum, R.L. (2011) Fundamentals of Causality, Information, Knowledge, Systems Management, 10: 101-10
Mumford, S. and Anjum, R.L. (2011) Effects of Context, Information, Knowledge, Systems Management, 10: 75-84
Mumford, S. and Anjum, R.L. (2011) Dispositional Modality, in C. F. Gethmann (ed.) Lebenswelt und Wissenschaft, Deutsches Jahrbuch Philosophie 2, Hamburg: Meiner Verlag: 380-94
Mumford, S. and Anjum, R.L. (2011) Spoils to the Vector: How to Model Causes if You Are a Realist About Powers, The Monist 94 (1): 54-80
Mumford, S. and Anjum, R.L. (2010) A Powerful Theory of Causation, The Metaphysics of Powers: Their Grounding and Their Manifestations, A. Marmadoro (ed.), London: Routledge
Mumford, S. and Anjum, R.L. (2009) Double Prevention and Powers, Journal of Critical Realism 8.3: 277-93
Anjum, R.L. (2007) The logic of ‘If’ – Or How to Philosophically Eliminate Conditional Relations, Sorites – Digital Journal of Analytical Philosophy, 19: 51-7
Anjum, R.L. (2006) En språklig verden: Noen tanker om språket som erkjennelsesmiddel, in S. R. Jørgensen and R. L. Anjum (eds), Tegn som Språk. En antologi om tegnspråk, Oslo: Gyldendal Akademisk: 199-212
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Undervisning
PHI102 Examen philosophicum - English version
MINA320 Tverrfaglig samarbeid og kontroverser om bærekraft
MINA321 Interdisciplinarity and expert disagreement on sustainability
MINA400 Research education across disciplines
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Forskning & prosjekt
Prosjekter
CauseHealth bring together philosophers, medical researchers and practitioners to address a major challenge: how to understand causation in health sciences.
Forskningsområder
Spesialområder:
- Philosophy
Forskningsområder:
- Filosofiske fag
- Humaniora
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Annet & CV