2013 Roundtable Schedule

Wednesday 20 November

All sessions: P&S Building, 16th Floor, Room 16-405, 630 W. 168th St.

8:30-8:45	Registration and breakfast
8:45-9:00	Welcome (Jeremy Simon)
9:00-10:30	Session 1: Clinical Trials (Chair – Miriam Solomon)
	Kirstin Borgerson	An Argument for Fewer Clinical Trials
	Sean Valles	The “Lumping” vs. “Splitting” Problem in Studies of the Hispanic Paradox
	Maya Goldenberg	The Double Standard of Care in Multinational Clinical Trials
10:30-10:45	BREAK
10:45-12:15	Session 2: Evidence (Chair – Jonathan Fuller)
	Chris Blunt	The Myth of the Hierarchy of Evidence
	Jennifer Bulcock	The Status of Mechanistic Evidence in Evidence-Based Medicine
	Leah McClimans	The Role of Measurement in Establishing Evidence-Based Medicine
12:15-1:30	LUNCH
1:30-2:45	Keynote Speaker: Rita Charon
2:45-3:00	BREAK
3:00-5:00	Session 3: Facts, values and disease (Chair – Ramesh Prasad)
	Susan Hawthorne	Getting Facts and Values Right in Clinical Science: Examples from the Bariatric Surgery Literature
	Helena Drage	Making Sense of the Value of Health: Health as a Thick Concept
	Hanna van Loo and Jan-Willem Romeijn	Comorbidity in Psychiatry: Fact or Artifact
	Rachel Ankeny	Shifting Index Cases in Degenerative Neurological Disease: a Philosophical Analysis of Recent Research on Huntington’s Disease

Thursday 21 November

AM sessions: Russ Berrie Building, 1st Floor, Lecture Hall 2, 1150 St. Nicholas Avenue

PM sessions: P&S Building, 16th Floor, Room 16-405, 630 W. 168th St.

8:30-8:45	Registration and breakfast
8:45-10:15	Keynote speaker: Ross Upshur
10:15-11:45	Session 4: Medical explanation (Chair – Ashley Graham Kennedy)
	Lauren Ross	Explanations and Explanatory Models in Biomedicine
	Tobias Huber	Network Analysis and the Brain
	Michael Cournoyea	Suffering Unknown and Unknowable: Medically Unexplained Physical Symptoms as a Challenge to Medical Explanations
11:45-1:15	LUNCH
1:15-3:15	Session 5: Measurement, prediction and progress (Chair – Jeremy Howick)
	Erik Angner	Apgar Scores and Measurement in Philosophy and Medicine
	Maël Lemoine	What Does it Take to Naturalize a Mental Disorder?
	Nina Atanasova	Animal Predictions of Human Responses
	William Goodwin	Revolution and Progress in Medicine
3:15-3:30	BREAK
3:30-5:00	Session 6: Health (Chair – Alain Leplege)
	Cristian Saborido, María González-Moreno and Juan Carlos Hernández	Bringing the Philosophy of Biology and the Philosophy of Medicine Closer Together: Natural Normativity and the Theoretical Definition Of Health And Disease
	Antoine C. Dussault and Anne-Marie Gagné	An Account of Health as Homeostatic Maintenance of Design, and some Epistemological Remarks
	Lydia du Bois	Doing Away with Pathology: The Role of Context in Naturalistic Theories of Health