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Friedman, Yael; Watzl, Sebastian; Oftedal, Gry & Görbitz, Carl Henrik
(2022).
Kurering, heling og habilitering.
Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening.
ISSN 0029-2001.
142(5).
doi:
10.4045/tidsskr.21.0653.
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Oftedal, Gry
(2021).
Are SNPs causes of happiness? Proportionality of cause and effect in GWAS.
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Oftedal, Gry
(2021).
Life Science Metaphors: Their roles in models, explanation and structuring of research.
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Friedman, Yael; Watzl, Sebastian; Oftedal, Gry & Görbitz, Carl Henrik
(2021).
Hva betyr «å bli bra» etter helseproblemer? Tre ord kan hjelpe oss å være tydeligere.
Aftenposten Viten.
ISSN 2464-3033.
s. 28–29.
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Oftedal, Gry
(2019).
Metaphors in science and communication in bionano and soft material science.
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Oftedal, Gry
(2019).
The role of the ´histone code´ in epigenetics.
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Oftedal, Gry
(2018).
Converging Philosophy and Life Sciences in the Framework of Responsible Research and Innovation.
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Oftedal, Gry
(2018).
Convergence, models, and metaphors in the construction of cell-like compartments: a philosophy of science perspective.
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Strand, Anders & Oftedal, Gry
(2017).
Restricted Causal Relevance.
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Oftedal, Gry
(2017).
What is Responsible Research and Innovation?
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Oftedal, Gry
(2016).
Causal Specificity.
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Oftedal, Gry
(2016).
Do measurements of specificity tell us about causal importance in living systems?
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Oftedal, Gry
(2016).
Intervention and explanation in targeted cancer treatment.
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Oftedal, Gry
(2016).
How to best implement philosophy of science as RRI activity in practice.
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Oftedal, Gry
(2016).
Molecular Categorizations of Cancer.
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Oftedal, Gry & Strand, Anders
(2016).
ELSA/RRI in NANOCAN.
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Oftedal, Gry
(2015).
Specificity and Asymmetry of Causal Relations in Biological Systems.
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Oftedal, Gry
(2015).
Molecular Categorizations of Cancer.
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Oftedal, Gry
(2015).
Systembiologiens Filosofi.
Filosofisk supplement.
ISSN 0809-8220.
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Oftedal, Gry
(2015).
Causal Specificity in Biological Systems.
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Oftedal, Gry
(2015).
Causal Specificity in Biology.
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Oftedal, Gry & Strand, Anders
(2015).
ELSA perspectives and RRI in NANOCAN.
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Oftedal, Gry
(2014).
Biological Specificity as Fine-Tuning and Direct Non-Redundancy.
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Oftedal, Gry
(2014).
Causal specificity in biological systems.
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Oftedal, Gry
(2014).
Causal Specificity in Biology.
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Oftedal, Gry
(2014).
Molecular categorizations of cancer: one or multiple diseases?
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Oftedal, Gry
(2013).
Kampen om metaforene.
[Avis].
Apollon.
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Oftedal, Gry
(2012).
Helheten er mer enn delene.
[Internett].
Salongen.no.
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Strand, Anders & Oftedal, Gry
(2011).
Causation and Counterfactual Dependence in Robust Biological Systems.
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Strand, Anders & Oftedal, Gry
(2011).
Causation and Counterfactual Dependence in Biological Systems.
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Oftedal, Gry
(2011).
The roles of difference-making and mechanisms in biology: Examples from classical genetics, molecular biology, and systems biology.
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Oftedal, Gry
(2011).
PSBio - A Nordic project on the philosophy of systems biology.
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Strand, Anders & Oftedal, Gry
(2010).
Functional Stability and System Level Causation.
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Oftedal, Gry
(2009).
Mechanisms versus Difference-making: Examples from genetics and molecular biology.
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Strand, Anders & Oftedal, Gry
(2009).
Reduksjonismedebatten: Gener versus systemer som årsaker.
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Strand, Anders & Oftedal, Gry
(2009).
Reduksjonismedebatten: Gener versus systemer som årsaker.
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Oftedal, Gry
(2008).
Philosophy of Dappled Things, a conversation with Nancy Cartwright.
Filosofisk supplement.
ISSN 0809-8220.
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Oftedal, Gry
(2008).
What Difference do Genes Make?
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Strand, Anders & Oftedal, Gry
(2008).
Functional Stability and Systems Level Causation.
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Oftedal, Gry
(2008).
Are Genes Difference-Makers?
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Oftedal, Gry
(2008).
Genetic Causation and Differences as Causes.
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Oftedal, Gry
(2007).
Er vi styrt av gener?
[Avis].
Vårt Land.
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Oftedal, Gry
(2007).
Bestemmer gener våre egenskaper?
[Avis].
Stavanger Aftenblad.
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Oftedal, Gry
(2007).
Pragmatics and objectivity in genetic causal explanations.
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Oftedal, Gry
(2007).
Kan gener tilskrives semantiske egenskaper?
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Oftedal, Gry
(2007).
Rival causal theories and their implication for our understanding of genetic determination.
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Oftedal, Gry
(2007).
Gene Semantics and Genetic Information.
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Oftedal, Gry
(2006).
Genetic Determinism in the Ethics of Genetic Enhancement.
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Oftedal, Gry
(2005).
Genmetaforer og Etikk.
Forskningsetikk.
ISSN 1502-6353.
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Oftedal, Gry
(2005).
Genetic Determinism in the Ethics of Biotechnology.
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Oftedal, Gry
(2005).
Do Genes have NC-capacities?
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Oftedal, Gry
(2004).
Heritability and Genetic Causation.
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Oftedal, Gry
(2004).
Genetic Causation Traced by the Analysis of Variance.
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Oftedal, Gry
(2004).
Do Heritability Estimates Reflect Genetic Causation?
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Dhillion, Shivcharn S.; Antonsen, Hilde; Oftedal, Gry & Olsson, P.A.
(2002).
Stimulation of ecosystem processes in boreal grasslands through experimental restoration.
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Dhillion, Shivcharn S. & Oftedal, Gry
(2001).
Restoration of Boreal Grasslands: a test of selected tools.
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Oftedal, Gry
(2007).
Conceptualizing Genes as Causes of Phenotypes.
Unipub forlag.
ISSN 0806-3222.
Vis sammendrag
How are genes to be understood as causes of phenotypes? In four papers I treat aspects of this highly discussed question in the philosophy of biology.
The paper “Gene Semantics and Genetic Information”, dispute that properties of protein synthesis are analogous to semantic properties and constitute a basis for ascribing naturalized semantic content to genes. I present an alternative account of genetic information based on bio-functions and genome stability.
In the second paper, “Genetic Determinism and the Gene-P/Gene-D Distinction”, I argue that this distinction does not capture that genes sometime are rather directly expressed, and that it implicates a too strong separation between gene/protein and gene/phenotype relations.
The third paper “Differential Approaches to Genetic Causation in Classical and Modern Genetics”, (1) criticizes the attribution of a “differential” concept of the gene to classical geneticists, (2) criticizes a recent account of differential causation for confusing levels of analysis, and (3) introduces the notion of ‘causation by omission of gene functioning’ as a special case of differential causation.
In the last paper, “Heritability and Genetic Causation”, I argue that heritability analysis may have the potential to reflect local genetic causation, however, that recent approaches are not able to get rid of the method’s main problematic aspects.
In total, I give a more balanced view on genetic causation than can be found in many recent accounts. On one side I argue that the genetic material is one among many significant causal factors regulating development, that non-genetic factors can carry information, and that genes are not even for proteins. On the other side, I argue that genes carry information about phenotypic traits both on the molecular and the organismal level, that genes can be privileged causes in specific contexts, and that the stability of the genetic material is a basis for ascribing a unique informational role to genes.