Symposium: Christopher Boorse and the Philosophy of Medicine

The symposium aims to fulfil two purposes: First, it will honour therenowned philosopher Christopher Boorse (Delaware) and his contributions tophilosophy of medicine. He will present three new original papers during the meeting. Second, it will provide a showcase of the current state of philosophy of medicine by giving the floor to a number of other well-known scholars in the field, who will also present original papers. These other confirmed speakers are: Bill Fulford (Oxford & UCLan), Dan Hausman (Wisconsin), Peter Hucklenbroich (Münster), Elselijn Kingma (London), Lennart Nordenfelt (Linköping), Peter Schwartz (Indiana), Jerry Wakefield (NYU). 

Programme

10 September

9.00-9.30 Welcome

9.30-11 Christopher Boorse (1) Goals of medicine

11.30-13 Lennart Nordenfelt: On disability and similar concepts

14.30-16.00  Bill Fulford: Values-based Practice: from theory to practice and back again courtesy of ordinary language philosophy

16.30-18 Peter Schwartz Treating Risk, Not Disease

11 September

9.00-10.30 Jerry Wakefield Biostatistics Versus Harmful Dysfunction: Can a Sibling Rivalry be Resolved?

11.00-12.30 Peter Hucklenbroich: 'Disease Entity' as the Key Theoretical Concept of Medicine. An Analysis and Reconstruction

14.00-15.30 Christopher Boorse (2) Replies to recent critics

16-17.30 Elselijn Kingma: Paracetamol still bad for one's health - but the BST can't tell us so; a reply to Hausman'

12 September

9-10.30 Dan Hausman: Health, Naturalism and Functional Efficiency

11-12.30 Christopher Boorse (3) Clinical normality

There will be limited places and there will be a conference fee of ca. 50 €. It is therefore necessary to register for the event. Please send enquiries to [email protected], stating "Philosophy of Medicine" in the header.