4th International Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable

November 2, 2011 - November 3, 2011
University of the Basque Country

Philosophy Building
Avenida de Tolosa 70
San Sebastián 20018
Spain

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University of Bucharest
Utrecht University

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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 II
Chair: 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)

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