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International Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable & Peter Sowerby Philosophy & Medicine Anniversary lecture


We are delighted to announce the ‘Sowerby Project 10 Year Anniversary Conference’ featuring the 12th International Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable (IPMR) in London on the 2nd & 3rd of June. The conference celebrates 10 years of thinking at the intersection of Philosophy & Medicine at King’s College London, and will finish with a Public Lecture by renowned British Psychiatrist Joanna Moncrieff followed by a Celebratory Reception.   

You can register for the conference here: https://estore.kcl.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/academic-faculties/faculty-of-arts-humanities/department-of-philosophy/international-philosophy-of-medicine-roundtable. Note that although registration is still open, those who register now may not be accomodated at the conference dinner. Registrants for the conference are automatically registered for the Anniversary Lecture & Celebratory Reception.  If you're only interested in attending the public lecture (and not the full conference), you can register via this link: https://buytickets.at/sowerbyproject/1706396

The International Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable (IPMR) is an open group of philosophers, clinicians, epidemiologists, social scientists, statisticians, bioethicists, and anyone else with an interest in epistemological and ontological issues connected with medicine. Its goal is to promote study of these philosophical issues by connecting people with an interest in them and organizing forums for the exchange of ideas.  

This year’s Roundtable – the 12th International Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable – is hosted in London on the 2nd & 3rd of June, with generous financial support from the British Society for the Philosophy of Science and the Analysis Trust.

We look forward to seeing you in London!  

For questions: PhilAndMed@kcl.ac.uk 

Programme

Monday June 2nd

09:00–10:15 Doors open, coffee and sweets served

09:15–09:30 Opening remarks

09:30–10:45 Keynote lecture: John Ioannidis (online)

10:45–11:15 Refreshments & Poster Viewing Opportunity

11:15–11:45 Why most published research findings are true? Reconsidering measuring replication Mariusz Maziarz

11:45–12:15 On the unfairness of the ‘fair-share principle’ for health research Victoria Wang

12:15–12:45 If obesity is a disease, start treating it like one: normative considerations for the GLP-1 era Adam Hudson

12:45–13:15 Lunch

13:15–14:15 Poster presentations

14:15–14:45 Values and biases in medical research and practice: A functional distinction Maria Cristina Amoretti & and Elisabetta Lalumera

14:45–15:15 Causal pluralism and public health ethics trade-offs: A toolkit for acting on social determinants of health Elena Popa & Jay Zameska

15:15–15:45 Speech acts and clinical acts: an exploration of medical refusal Rebecca Brione

15:45–16:15 Refreshments & Poster Viewing Opportunity

16:15–16:45 Inference and expertise: A simulation Lilian von Bressendorf

16:45–17:15 Understanding symptoms: diagnosis, cure and bodily re-integration Helene Scott-Fordsmand

17:15–17:45 Beginning with paradigm diseases Henrik Røed Sherling

17:45–18:15 Mental (dis)orders and the social construction of proper function Milan Ney

Evening Participants’ dinner, details TBC

Tuesday June 3rd

09:00–10:15 Doors open

09:15–09:45 Considering the source: The power of “evidence” and “objectivity” in preparing the grounds for medical gaslighting and illness invalidation Devora Shapiro

09:45–10:15 One test to rule them all? A contextualist-pragmatic account of biomarkers Daan Kenis

10:15–10:45 Navigating inductive risk in machine learning for hadron therapy Ethan Vorster

10:45–11:15 Refreshments & Poster Viewing Opportunity

11:15–11:45 The revised definition of pain: A case study in conceptual choice in medicine Elisabetta Lalumera

11:45–12:15 Giving uptake to the metaphorical meaning of delusions Kathleen Murphy-Hollies

12:15–12:45 The medicalisation of silence Dan Dagerman

12:45–13:15 Lunch

13:15–14:15 Poster presentations

14:15–14:45 The interface problem in psychiatry: can mental dysfunctions be reduced to brain dysfunctions Mark Jurjako

14:45–15:15 Patient values and inductive risk in disorder of consciousness Mona-Marie Wandrey

15:15–15:45 Is there a special problem of theory in psychotherapy? Johanna Silva Stüger Pinto

15:45–16:15 Refreshments & Poster Viewing Opportunity

16:15–17:30 Keynote lecture & Sowerby Project 10 Year Anniversary Public Lecture: Changing our minds: how we have been misled about the nature of depression and mental disorder Joanna Moncrieff

17:30–17:45 Closing remarks

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