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)
Registration and more information: http://philosmed.org
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 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)
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)
Registration and more information: http://philosmed.org
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 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)
Sponsored by the Faculty of Philosophy and Education Sciences (UPV/EHU), and the Department of Logic, History and Philosophy of Science (UNED)
Registration and more information: http://philosmed.org
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 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)
