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Early Career Scholars Conference in Philosophy of Psychiatry: Overcoming Mind-Brain Dualism in 21st Century Medicine

21-22, November 2014
Center for Philosophy of Science
817 Cathedral of Learning
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA USA

 

     Friday, Nov. 21   

8:30

Continental Breakfast

9:00

Introduction

9:15

Keynote Address: Jennifer Radden
"Melancholy as Disease: Learning About Depression from Burton’s Anatomy"

10:30

Speaker: Mael Lemoine/Commentator: Ken F. Schaffner
"Neurobiological Redefinition of a Psychiatric Symptom: Elimination, Reduction, or What?"

11:25

Coffee Break

11:40

Speaker: Lauren Ross/Commentator: Eric Turkheimer
"Psychiatric Genetics: Advances in Explaining and Understanding Mental Disorders"

12:40

Lunch On Your Own

1:50

Poster Session

3:00

Speaker: Wesley Buckwalter/Commentator: Heidi Maibom
"The Folk Psychological Basis of Dualistic Psychiatric Approaches"

4:00

Speaker: Aaron Kotsko/Commentator: Edouard Machery
"Humanistic and Personalized Psychiatry Without Dualism"

4:55

Coffee Break

5:05

Speaker: Serife Tekin/Commentator: Jonathan Tsou
"Operationalizing the Self in Scientific Psychiatry: Perils and Promises"

 

     Saturday, Nov.22     

8:45

Continental Breakfast

9:15

Speaker: Simon Goyer, Luc Faucher/Commentator: Claire Pouncey
"RDoC: Thinking Outside the DSM Box Without Falling into the DSM Trap"

10:10

Speaker: Anthony Fernandez/Commentator: Somogy Varga
"Psychiatry and Poverty of Subjectivity: The Power and Promise of Phenomenological Psychopathology"

11:05

Coffee Break

11:15

Speaker: Katrina Winzeler/Commentator: Valerie Hardcastle
"The Ineliminability of Psychotherapy as a Treatment for Depression: Path-Dependency and Resilience"

12:15

Speaker: Kathryn Tabb/Commentator: Jacqueline Sullivan
"Philosophy of Psychiatry after Diagnostic Kinds"

1:10

Lunch On Your Own

2:15

Poster Session

3:30

Keynote Address: John Z. Sadler
"Folk Metaphysics as Cultural Confound and Constraint in Mental Health Discourse"

4:40

Roundtable. Rob Wilson, Chair.

5:45

Adjourn

 

Organizing Committee: William Bechtel, Trey Boone, Mazviita Chirimuuta, Peter Machamer, Edouard Machery, Kenneth Schaffner, Kathryn Tabb, and Serife Tekin.

Sponsors:
The Center for Philosophy of Science
Daemen College

 

 
 
 
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