Emma•ism
A 2025 graduate of the London School of Economic’s MSc in Philosophy and Public Policy program, 2024 Thouron Award winner, and 2024 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s (BA) philosophy department shares her love of philosophy through podcasts.
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Going for Gold: A Plan for Implementation (opens the original)
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How should we enact the revision to the rare disease medicine evidence hierarchy that I proposed in my LSE dissertation? This podcast explains how. Loosely, there should be 4 review steps: 1. Confirm the Study is for a Rare Disease 2. What is the Mechanism Plausibility Rating? 3. Future Plans for or Record of a Test of the Intervention (N-of-1 or Adaptive Bayesian) 4. Registry-Enabled Confirmatory Phase
Going for Gold: Mechanistic Evidence Drives Epistemic & Pragmatic Progress in Rare Disease Research (opens the original)
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What should count as reliable evidence supporting medical inductions when traditional evidentiary hierarchies are epistemically inadequate? This dissertation argues that the evidentiary status of mechanisms, broadly understood as reasoning based on understanding of causal biomedical systems, in rare disease medical research should be raised. This is an epistemological claim about evidence hierarchies in medicine, and its defense will be grounded in philosophy of science analysis (specifically vi
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