Ana Soto is a principal investigator at Tufts University in Boston, USA, and in 2013 she was Blaise Pascal Chair of Biology at the Ecole Normale Supérieur (ENS) de Paris, France. Together with Carlos Sonnenschein she discovered in 1987 the mimetic action of estrogen by plastic products, so called endocrine disrupters. She is the …
Phyllis Illari is a Senior Lecturer at University College London (Dept of Science & Technology Studies; Faculty of Maths & Physical Sciences) in the UK. She works in the philosophy of science, with particular expertise in causality, mechanisms and information. Abstract I will present a view of evidence of mechanisms as evidence of the …