Publications
2024
Scholarly publications
Wunsch, G., Gourbin, C., & Russo, F. (2024). Big Data, Demography, and Causality. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 12(1), 181-206. https://doi.org/10.4236/jss.2024.121012
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Caniglia, G., & Russo, F. (2024). How is who: evidence as clues for action in participatory sustainability science and public health research. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 46(1), 1-26. Article 4. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-023-00603-5
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Ratti, E., & Russo, F. (2024). Science and values: a two-way direction: Paper in Philosophy of Science in Practice. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 14(1), 1-23. Article 6. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-024-00567-8
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2023
Scholarly publications
Russo, F., & Rihoux, B. (2023). Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA): A pluralistic approach to causal inference. In H. Kincaid, & J. Van Bouwel (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Political Science (pp. 243-265). (Oxford handbooks). The Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197519806.013.12
Caniglia, G., Freeth, R., Luederitz, C., Leventon, J., West, S. P., John, B., Peukert, D., Lang, D. J., von Wehrden, H., Martín-López, B., Fazey, I., Russo, F., von Wirth, T., Schlüter, M., & Vogel, C. (2023). Practical wisdom and virtue ethics for knowledge co-production in sustainability science. Nature Sustainability, 6(5), 493-501. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-01040-1
Russo, F., & Hirsch, P. (2023). Navigating Complex Trade-Offs in Public Health Interventions. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 29(3), 430-437. https://doi.org/10.1111/jep.13807
Russo, F., Schliesser, E. S., & Wagemans, J. H. M. (2023). Connecting ethics and epistemology of AI. AI & SOCIETY. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-022-01617-6
Russo, F., & Illari, P. (Accepted/In press). Routledge Handbook of Causality and Causal Methods. Routledge.
Hulvej Rod, N., Broadbent, A., Hulvej Rod, M., Russo, F., Arah, O. A., & Stronks, K. (2023). Complexity in Epidemiology and Public Health. Addressing Complex Health Problems Through a Mix of Epidemiologic Methods and Data. Epidemiology, 34(4), 505-514. https://doi.org/10.1097/EDE.0000000000001612
Russo, F. (2023). Sociomarkers and information transmission. In E. Giroux, F. Merlin, & Y. Fayet (Eds.), Integrative Approaches in Environmental Health and Exposome Research: Epistemological and Practical Issues (pp. 35-63). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28432-8_3
2022
Scholarly publications
Brave, R., Russo, F., Uzovic, O., & Wagemans, J. (2022). Can an AI Analyze Arguments? Argument-Checking and the Challenges of Assessing the Quality of Online Information. In C. El Morr (Ed.), AI and Society (pp. 267-281). (Chapman & Hall/CRC Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Series). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003261247-20
Brave, R., Russo, F., Wagemans, J., Ciracì, F. (Ed.), Miglietta, G. (Ed.), & Gatto, C. (Ed.) (2022). Argument-Checking: XI convegno annuale dell' Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale. Associazione per l'Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale. https://doi.org/10.6092/unibo/amsacta/6848
Gopal, W., & Russo, F. (2022). What Difference Does the Digital Era Make to Authority and Power Structures? A Reply to Beatriz Buarque. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, 11(11), 12-17.
Wunsch, G., Russo, F., Mouchart, M., & Orsi, R. (2022). Time and causality in the social sciences. Time and Society, 31(2), 177-204. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X211029488
Russo, F. (2022). Causal Pluralism and Public Health. In S. Venkatapuram, & A. Broadbent (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Public Health (pp. 98-113). (Routledge handbooks in applied ethics). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315675411-9
Poliseli, L., Coutinho, J. G. E., Viana, B., Russo, F., & El-Hani, C. N. (2022). Philosophy of science in practice in ecological model building. Biology and Philosophy, 37, Article 21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-022-09851-4
Russo, F. (2022). Techno-Scientific Practices: An Informational Approach. Rowman & Littlefield. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786612328/Techno-Scientific-Practices-An-Informational-Approach
Russo, F., & Poliseli Ramos, L. (2022). Philosophy of Science in Practice and Weak Scientism Together Apart. In M. Mizrahi (Ed.), For and Against Scientism: Science, Methodology, and the Future of Philosophy Rowman & Littlefield.
2021
Scholarly publications
Kelly, M. P., & Russo, F. (2021). The epistemic values at the basis of epidemiology and public health. Medicina e Storia, 5(1), 105-119.
Russo, F. (2021). Value-promoting concepts in the health sciences and public health. Philosophical News, 22, 135-148. https://doi.org/10.7413/2039-7194127
Jiménez-Buedo, M., & Russo, F. (2021). Experimental practices and objectivity in the social sciences: re‐embedding construct validity in the internal–external validity distinction. Synthese, 199(3-4), 9549-9579. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03215-3
Caniglia, G., Jaeger, C., Schernhammer, E., Steiner, G., Russo, F., Renn, J., Schlosser, P., & Laubichler, M. D. (2021). COVID-19 heralds a new epistemology of science for the public good. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 43(2). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-021-00413-7
2020
Scholarly publications
Gobbo, F., & Russo, F. (2020). Epistemic diversity and the question of Lingua Franca in science and philosophy. Foundations of Science, 25, 185-207. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-019-09631-6
2019
Scholarly publications
Russo, F. (2019). [Review of: D. Gillies (2019) Causality, Probability, and Medicine]. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
Russo, F. (2019). [Review of: K.C. Elliott, T. Richards (2017) Exploring Inductive Risk : case studies of values in science]. HOPOS, 9(1), 179-182. https://doi.org/10.1086/701859
Clarke, B., Ghiara, V., & Russo, F. (2019). Time to care: why the humanities and the social sciences belong in the science of health. BMJ Open, 9(8). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-030286
Russo, F., Wunsch, G., & Mouchart, M. (2019). Causality in the Social Sciences: a structural modelling framework. Quality and Quantity, 53(5), 2575-2588. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-019-00872-y
Johnson, R. B., Russo, F., & Schoonenboom, J. (2019). Causality in mixed methods research: the meeting of philosophy, science, and practice. Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 13(2), 143-162. https://doi.org/10.1177/1558689817719610
Ghiara, V., & Russo, F. (2019). Reconstructing the mixed mechanisms of health: the role of bio- and socio-markers. Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, 10(1), 7-25. https://doi.org/10.1332/175795919X15468755933353
2018
Scholarly publications
Penders, B., & Russo, F. (2018). The day the milk went sour: Bridging epistemology and ontology in Latour’s empirical philosophy: [Review of: G. de Vries (2016) Bruno Latour]. Science as Culture, 27(3), 398-402. https://doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2018.1476480
Clarke, B., & Russo, F. (2018). Mechanisms and biomedicine. In S. Glennan, & P. Ilari (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Mechanisms and Mechanical Philosophy (pp. 319-331). (Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315731544-24
Vineis, P., & Russo, F. (2018). Epigenetics and the Exposome: environmental exposure in disease etiology. In H. Shugart (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science (Oxford Research Encyclopedias). The Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199389414.013.325
Demetriou, C. A., Degli Esposti, D., Pullen Fedinick, K., Russo, F., Robinson, O., & Vineis, P. (2018). Filling the gap between chemical carcinogenesis and the hallmarks of cancer: a temporal perspective. European Journal of Clinical Investigation, 48(6). https://doi.org/10.1111/eci.12933
Russo, F. (2018). Etica del digitale tra ricerca e applicazioni. In Europa: un’utopia in costruzione Enciclopedia Treccani.
Illari, P. K., & Russo, F. (2018). Editors’ letter. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 8(1), 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-017-0199-8
Parkkinen, V.-P., Wallmann, C., Wilde, M., Clarke, B., Illari, P., Kelly, M. P., Norell, C., Russo, F., Shaw, B., & Williamson, J. (2018). Evaluating evidence of mechanisms in medicine: Principles and rocedures. (SpringerBriefs in Philosophy). SpringerOpen. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94610-8
Russo, F. (2018). Digital technologies, ethical questions, and the need of an informational framework. Philosophy & Technology, 31(4), 655-667. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-018-0326-2
Wunsch, G., Mouchart, M., & Russo, F. (2018). Causal attribution in block-recursive social systems: a structural modeling perspective. Methodological Innovations, 11(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1177/2059799118768415
2017
Scholarly publications
Russo, F., & Vineis, P. (2017). Opportunities and challenges of molecular epidemiology. In G. Boniolo, & M. J. Nathan (Eds.), Philosophy of molecular medicine (pp. 252-282). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315674162
Parkkinen, V.-P., Russo, F., & Wallmann, C. (2017). Scientific disagreement and evidential pluralism: Lessons from the studies on hypercholesterolemia. Humana Mente, 10(32), 75-116.
Illari, P., & Russo, F. (2017). Editors’ letter. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 7(3), 391-392. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-017-0186-0
Jimenez-Buedo, M., & Russo, F. (Eds.) (2017). Causality and modelling. Disputatio, 9(47), 423-690.
Jiménez-Buedo, M., & Russo, F. (2017). Causality and Modelling in the Sciences: Introduction. Disputatio, 9(47), 423-427. https://doi.org/10.1515/disp-2017-0013
Vineis, P., Illari, P., & Russo, F. (2017). Causality in cancer research: a journey through models in molecular epidemiology and their philosophical interpretation. Emerging Themes in Epidemiology, 14. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12982-017-0061-7
2016
Scholarly publications
Ilari, P., & Russo, F. (2016). Information and causality. In L. Floridi (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Information (pp. 235-248). (Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315757544
Mouchart, M., Wunsch, G., & Russo, F. (2016). Controlling variables in social systems - A structural modelling approach. Bulletin of Sociological Methodology, 132(1), 5-25. https://doi.org/10.1177/0759106316662811
Clarke, B., & Russo, F. (2016). Causation in medicine. In J. A. Marcum (Ed.), The Bloomsbury companion to contemporary philosophy of medicine (pp. 297-322). (Bloomsbury companions). Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474233033.ch-013
Russo, F. (2016). Can a unified approach help with teaching philosophy of science? [Review of: G. Schurz (2014) Philosophy of Science : a unified approach]. Science and Education, 25(7-8), 929-931. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11191-016-9857-z
Plantin, J.-C., & Russo, F. (2016). D’abord les données, ensuite la méthode? Big data et déterminisme en sciences sociales. Socio, 6, 97-115. https://doi.org/10.4000/socio.2328
Russo, F. (2016). On the poietic character of technology. Humana Mente, 9(30), 147-174.
Iliadis, A., & Russo, F. (2016). Critical data studies: An introduction. Big Data & Society, 3(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951716674238
Russo, F., & Osimani, B. (2016). Bayesianisme objectif et principe de précaution. In I. Drouet (Ed.), Le bayésianisme aujourd’hui
Russo, F. (2016). Model-based reasoning in the social sciences. In M. Dorato, & M. Morganti (Eds.), Model-based reasoning
2015
Scholarly publications
Russo, F. (2015). I modelli nelle scienze sociali. APhEx, 12.
Wunsch, G., Mouchart, M., & Russo, F. (2015). Les limites de la connaissance en sciences sociales: l'explication mise en cause. (L'Académie en poche). Académie royale de Belgique. http://academie-editions.be/catalogue/15-leslimitesdelaconnaissanceensciencessociales.html
Russo, F. (2015). A pluralist account of causality [Review of: P.V. Rabins (2013) The why of things: causality in medicine, science, and life]. Metascience, 24(3), 381-384. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-014-9978-4
Russo, F. (2015). Statistical generalizations in epidemiology. In T. Schramme, & S. Edwards (Eds.), Philosophical analysis
Russo, F. (2015). Causation and correlation in medical sciences. In T. Schramme, & S. Edwards (Eds.), Theoretical problems
2014
Scholarly publications
Kelly, M. P., Kelly, R. S., & Russo, F. (2014). The integration of social, behavioral, and biological mechanisms in models of pathogenesis. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 57(3), 308-328. https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2014.0026
Ilari, P., & Russo, F. (2014). Introduction: Evidence and Causality in the Sciences. Topoi, 33(2), 293-294. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-013-9232-5
Illari, P., & Russo, F. (2014). Causality: Philosophical Theory Meets Scientific Practice. The Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/causality-9780199662678
2009
Scholarly publications
Russo, F. (2009). Causality and Causal Modelling in the Social Sciences: Measuring Variations. (Methodos Series). Springer Verlag.