PANTC Conference on Bioethics and the Philosophy of Medicine

The PANTC Philosophy Reading Group presents a conference on Bioethics and the Philosophy of Medicine from July 30 - August 1, 2015 in Park Hall 280 at SUNY Buffalo, North Campus.  Keynoters are Jerome Wakefield and Christopher Boorse.  This conference is free and open to the public, but attendees are requested to email David Hershenov at [email protected].

The schedule is as follows:

Thursday, July 30

10:00am - Conceptual Analysis of a Person with Baker's Constitution Account (Yuichi Minemura)
11:15am - Detecting Organisms: Being and Act (Adam Pasternack)
1:15pm - When Can We Know You're Dead? (Catherine Nolan)
2:30pm - Against the Biological Account of Special Relationships (Jake Monaghan)
3:45pm - A Species-less Account of Non-Comparative Biological Harm (David Limbaugh)
5:00pm - Laing and Sartre on Mental Illness (Jelena Krgovic)

Friday, July 31

9:00am - Healthy Development, Rearing Relationships, and Moral Status (Rose Hershenov)
10:15am - Are Pedophilia and Homosexuality Diseases? (Steven Kershnar)
11:30am - The Harm in Harmful Disfunction (Neil Feit)

Keynotes:

1:30pm - Critique of Wakefield's HDA (Christopher Boorse)
3:45pm - Critique of Boorse's BST (Jerome Wakefield)

Saturday, August 1

9:00am - Generic Health (David Hershenov)
10:15am - Hybrid Accounts of Well Being and How Life Could go Badly (James Delaney)
11:30am - The Emotion Ontology (Barry Smith)

Keynotes:

1:30pm - Grief and Pathology (Jerome Wakefield)
3:45pm - Grief and Pathology (Christopher Boorse)

For more information, email: [email protected]