Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable

November 18 - 20, 2005

Friday

 

Saturday

 

Sunday

2:00 - 4:00 PM

 

8:30 AM

 

8:30 AM

Elliott, Kevin

 

Continental Breakfast

 

Continental Breakfast

Louisiana State University (USA)

 

 

 

 

"Contextual Values and the Characterization of Medically

 

9:00 - 11:00 AM

 

9:00 - 11:00 AM

Relevant Anomalies: The Case of  Multiple Chemical Sensitivity"

 

Bluhm, Robyn Lynne

 

Mosley, Albert

 

 

University of Western Ontario (Canada)

 

Smith College (USA)

Simon, Jeremy

 

"Further Lessons from ECMO: The Epistemology

 

"Race, Medicine, and Conceptual Evolution"

New York University (USA)

 

 and Ethics of Chronic Disease Research"

 

 

"A Constructive Realist Approach to Medical Ontology"

 

 

 

Weber, Karsten

 

 

Borgerson, Kristin

 

European University (Germany)

4:15 - 6:15 PM

 

University of Toronto (Canada)

 

"ICT Implants and the Human Body: Communitarian,

Sesardic, Neven

 

"Evidence-based Alternative Medicine"

 

Liberal, and Libertarian Arguments"

Lignan University (Hong Kong)

 

 

 

 

"Sudden infant death or murder?

 

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

 

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

A royal confusion about probabilities"

 

Howick, Jeremy -

 

Ekanola, Adebola

 

 

London School of Economics and Political Science

University of Ibandan (Nigeria)

Mallon, Ron

 

"Placebo Controls: Epistemic Virtue or Vice?"

 

"Metaphysical Entities and Healthcare

University of Utah (USA)

 

 

 

 in an African Culture"

"Explaining Transient Mental illness:

 

12:15:00 PM  Lunch

 

 

 Understanding Disclaimed Actions"

 

 

 

 

 

 

1:30 - 3:30 PM

 

 

 

 

Gifford, Fred

 

 

6:15 PM

 

Michigan State University (USA)

 

 

Reception

 

"Clinical Trials and Cross Purposes"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alvarez, J. F.

 

 

 

 

UNED (Madrid)

 

 

 

 

"Statistical Rules and Normative Criteria in the

 

 

 

 

Assessment of Randomized Clinical Trials"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3:45 - 4:45 PM

 

Philosophy Department

 

Perlman, Robert

 

Telephone Number: (205) 934-4805

 

University of Chicago (USA)

 

Fax: (205) 975-6610

 

"Diseases As Species: an Evolutionary Perspective"

 

email: philosophy@uab.edu