Book Symposium: The New Modern Medicine

Jonathan Fuller, Christopher Phillips  (Carnegie Mellon University), Benjamin Chin-Yee (University of Western Ontario)

Book Symposium: The New Modern Medicine

September 18 @ 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm EDT 

In The New Modern Medicine: Disease, Evidence, and Epidemiological Medicine (OUP, 2025), Jonathan Fuller examines contemporary scientific medicine and its distinctive philosophical problems, particularly problems brought about by the integration of modern epidemiology into medicine. In this book symposium, Christopher Phillips and Benjamin Chin-Yee will respond to the book from philosophical, historical, and clinical perspectives. The audience will then be invited into the conversation.

The New Modern Medicine is available to download open access:

Jonathan Fuller MD PhD

Associate Professor, Department of History and Philosophy of Science

University of Pittsburgh

Christopher Phillips PhD

Professor and Department Head, Department of History

Carnegie Mellon University

Benjamin Chin-Yee MD DPhil

Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy

Western University

Schedule:

1:30–1:35 Introduction by Center Director

1:35–1:50 Introduction to the book by Jonathan Fuller

1:50–2:20 Response by Christopher Phillips

2:20–2:50 Response by Benjamin Chin-Yee

2:50–3:00 Break

3:00–3:15 Reply by Jonathan Fuller

3:15–4:00 Q&A

Located in the Center for Philosophy of Science, 1117 Cathedral of Learning