4th INTERNATIONAL PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE ROUNDTABLE
University of the Basque Country
Donostia – San Sebastian, Spain
Sponsored by the Faculty of Philosophy and Education Sciences (UPV/EHU), and the Department of Logic, History and Philosophy of Science (UNED)
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2011 PROGRAM
Wednesday, November 2
8: 45 Welcome to the Roundtable: Jeremy Simon (Columbia)& the local organizers
9:00-10:30 INVITED SPEAKER: Alfredo Morabia (Columbia University) ‘Nazism and Public Health: Are they compatible?’Chair: Miriam Solomon (Temple University)
COFFEE BREAK
11:00-13:00 CONTRIBUTED PAPERS I Chair: Antonio Casado (UPV/EHU)
Havi Carel (UWE): Illness as a philosophical category; James Krueger (U. Redlands): The Explanatory Nature of Disease; Maël Lemoine (U. Tours): Defining disease beyond conceptual analysis; Lauren Ross (U. Pittsburgh): Value, Dysmenorrhea and the Definition of Disease
LUNCH
14:30-16:00 CONTRIBUTED PAPERS IIChair: Jeremy R. Simon (Columbia)
Jason Robert (Arizona State University): Cultivating clinical wisdom: What? Why? And how?; Kathryn Tabb (U. Pittsburgh): What Good are Natural Kinds for the Philosopher of Medicine?; James Hitt (Saginaw Valley State University): Vegetative State as a Postulate of Medical Knowledge
COFFEE BREAK
16:30-18:00 CONTRIBUTED PAPERS III Chair: Arantza Etxeberria (UPV/EHU)
Barbara Osimani (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore): Risk aversion and the precautionary principle in the pharmaceutical domain: a philosophical enquiry; Sean Valles (Michigan State University): Narrow Evolutionary Biology and Dubious Clinical Medicine in Evolutionary Medicine; Marie Darrason (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne): Unifying diseases through common genetic mechanisms : the example of the genetic theory of infectious diseases
Thursday, November 3
9:00-10:30 INVITED SPEAKER: Brian Hurwitz (King’s College, London) ‘Construing Clinical Cases – Some Compositional Challenges’. Chair: Fred Gifford (Michigan State University)
COFFEE BREAK
11:00-13:00 CONTRIBUTED PAPERS IV Chair: Kirstin Borgerson (Dalhousie University)
Jeremy Howick (Oxford): Why mechanisms rarely bridge the gap between randomized trials and ‘target’ populations: a reply to Cartwright; Elselijn Kingma (King’s College, London): EBM: mistaking hierarchies of evidentiary tools for evidence; Adam La Caze (U. Queensland): Large randomized trials and therapeutic decisions; Mila Petrova (U. Exeter): (How) Can Philosophical Debates on Variety of Evidence in Medicine Benefit “Health Research Synthesis” Studies?
LUNCH
14:30-16:00 CONTRIBUTED PAPERS V Chair: Jeremy Howick (Oxford)
Kirstin Borgerson (Dalhousie University): Shifting the Burden of Justification in Clinical Trial Design; Daniele Chiffi (University of Padova): In and Out of the Black Box: The ‘Inferential Challenge’ of Weak Associations; Cecilia Nardini (University of Milan): Monitoring in Clinical Trials: the Need to Reform
COFFEE BREAK
16:30-18:00 CONTRIBUTED PAPERS VI Chair: Havi Carel (UWE)
Stéphanie Van Droogenbroeck (Vrije Universiteit Brussel): A preliminary qualitative analysis of the heuristic “Don’t think zebras”; Miriam Solomon (Temple University): “A Troubled Area”:Understanding the controversy over screening mammography for women aged 40-49; Michael Cournoyea (University of Toronto): Untangling Complexity and Pluralism in Medical Explanations
18:00-19:00 GENERAL DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS Chair: David Teira (UNED)