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Sowerby Workshop: What is dying?
The Sowerby Philosophy & Medicine Project are delighted to invite you to a one-day workshop on May 8th, 9:00 - 17:30 at King's College London on "What is Dying?". This interdisciplinary workshop aims to bring together researchers from philosophy, public policy and medicine to explore the question “what is dying?”. The hope is to clarify the question and highlight the urgent need for an answer. This is the start of a cross-disciplinary conversation which should hopefully stimulate discussion and work on a much neglected topic.
Speakers:
Dr Christina Chu, Clinical Research Training Fellow, University College London, Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department
Dr Paul Taylor, Consultant in Palliative Medicine and St Luke’s Senior Clinical Lecturer in Palliative Medicine at the University of Sheffield
Dr Guy Schofield, Consultant in Palliative Medicine and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at Imperial College London
Professor Michael Hauskeller, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Liverpool
Professor Havi Carel, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bristol
Professor Steven Luper, Professor of Philosophy at Trinity University, Texas
Schedule
0900 - 0920: Coffee and registration
0920 - 0930: Arjun Devanesan - Introduction and aims for the day
0930 - 1020: Dr Christina Chu - title TBC
1030 - 1120: Dr Paul Taylor - title TBC
1120 -1140: Coffee break
1140 - 1230: Prof Michael Hauskeller: dying as process and experience
1230 - 1330: Lunch
1330 - 1420: Dr Guy Schofield - title TBC
1430 - 1520: Prof Havi Carel - title TBC
1530 - 1620: Prof Steven Luper - title TBC
1620 - 1640: Coffee break
1640 - 1730: Panel discussion
You can register here.
Templeton-Sowerby Workshop "Function and Dysfunction in Medicine and Psychiatry"
The KCL Sowerby Philosophy & Medicine Project and members of the CUNY philosohy faculty, kindly sonsored by the Templeton Foundation, are excited to invite attendees to our joint workshop on Function and Dysfunction in Medicine and Psychiatry.
The two-day workshop can be attended in person at King's College London, or online on Zoom. Please find the workshop programme and details of registration here.
CfA deadline
The deadline for submitting abstracts for the Templeton-Sowerby Joint Workshop: Function and Dysfunction in Medicine and Psychiatry!
Find out more about the Call for Abstracts here.
Prospects and Challenges for a Global State Model of Depression
On Thursday 11th of May at 5pm GMT, join us to hear Cecily Whiteley speak on ‘Prospects and Challenges for a Global State Model of Depression’!
Health and disease as practical concepts: a pragmatist approach
On Thursday 4th of May at 5PM GMT, come hear Nicholas Binney and Rik van der Linden give a talk ‘Health and disease as practical concepts: a pragmatist approach’!
Christopher Boorse: 'New Replies to Critics'
We are very pleased to announce this second colloquium in our series ‘New Work on the Concepts of Health and Disease’. Register and find out more here.
4th Interdisciplinary Workshop: The Puzzle of Addiction
We are very excited to invite attendees to our 4th Interdisciplinary Workshop, which this year will focus on the puzzle of addiction and other aspects of Hanna Pickard’s work.
Robert Chapman: ‘Towards a Democratic Approach to Health Concepts’
We are very excited to announce this first colloquium in our new series called ‘New Work on the Concepts of Health and Disease’. Find out more and register here.
Jonathan Pugh - 'Deep brain stimulation, neuroethics, and the revision of the Mental Health Act'
Join us for the final event in our series on Philosophy and the Mental Health Act!
'Subjectivism vs paternalism, the Scylla and Charybdis of mental healthcare' - Professor Tim Thornton
Join us for the next colloquium in our series on Philosophy and the Mental Health Act.
Communication in Youth Mental Health Clinical Encounters: An Agential Stand
We are very pleased to welcome attendees to the second colloquium in our series on Philosophy and the Mental Health Act.
In this event, Professor Lisa Bortolotti from University of Birmingham and Clara Bergen from City University of London School of Health Sciences will be speaking on the topic of 'Communication in youth mental health clinical encounters: Introducing the agential stance'.
This will be a hybrid event, with an option to either attend in person in Bush House or online via Zoom.
Philosophy and the Mental Health Act - Panel Discussion
We are very pleased to invite attendees to the first event in our colloquium series on Philosophy and the Mental Health Act!
Our fantastic panellists are Professor Sir Simon Wessely, Professor Judy Laing, and Dr Gareth Owen. Find out more here.
This colloquium is a part of a wider series on Philosophy and the Mental Health Act. Find out more about the series here.
2021 Sowerby Annual Lecture
The 2021 Annual Sowerby Lecture will be given at 6.30pm on the 2nd of November by Professor Neil Ferguson (Imperial), leading epidemiologist and scientific adviser whose modelling and advice significantly influenced the U.K.’s Covid-19 response.
3rd Peter Sowerby Interdisciplinary Workshop
We are very pleased to invite attendees to the 3rd Peter Sowerby Interdisciplinary Workshop. This year’s theme is ‘Policy and intervention in crises, disasters and emergencies: Covid-19 and beyond.’
Law, Medical Power, and Minorities
We are very pleased to invite attendees to our first in person colloquium in a long time! (There will be an option to attend online, too.)
Professor Craig Konnoth from UVA will be speaking on ‘Law, Medical Power, and Minorities’.
'"Blood Bans: A Case Study of Defenses of Stereotyping in Medical Contexts'
This talk by Professor Rima Basu is the eight and final colloquium in our Summer Series in Stereotyping and Medical AI.
‘Enabling Fairness in Healthcare Through Machine Learning’ - Dr Geoff Keeling
This colloquium is organised as part of the Summer Series in Stereotyping and Medical AI.
'Algorithmic Fairness and Resentment' with Profs. Zoë Johnson King and Boris Babic
We are very pleased to announce our sixth colloquium in this series of colloquia on Stereotyping & Medical AI, which is co-organised by Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) and the Sowerby Philosophy & Medicine Project.
Professor Zoë Johnson King is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at USC. Her research specialties are in Ethics, Metaethics, Epistemology, Decision Theory, and Philosophy of Law. She mainly works on non-ideal moral psychology thinking about motivation and creditworthiness for squishy messy humans in an unjust world. She is also currently leading an anti-racism discussion group for members of November Project Brooklyn and November Project New York.
Professor Boris Babic has a joint appointment in the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Statistics at the University of Toronto. Previously, he was an assistant professor in the Decision Sciences Department at INSEAD and a postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology. His research specialities are in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Decision Theory, and Epistemology. And he is primarily interested in questions in Bayesian inference and decision-making, and normative questions in the implementation of artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Special Legal-Themed Panel Discussion on Stereotyping & Medical AI
This event is the 5th colloquium in our Summer Colloquium Series on Stereotyping and Medical AI.
Our panellists:
Dr. Jonathan Gingerich (KCL), Lecturer in the Philosophy of Law at the Yeoh Tiong Lay Centre for Politics, Philosophy & Law
Dr. Reuben Binns (Oxford), Associate Professor of Human Centred Computing
Prof. Georgi Gardiner (Tennessee), Associate Professor of Philosophy
Prof. David Papineau (KCL), Professor of Philosophy of Science
'Neural Networks and Explanatory Opacity' - Dr. Will McNeill
The 4th colloquium in our Summer Series on Stereotyping and Medical AI.
Dr. McNeill is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Southampton, working in the philosophy of mind, artificial intelligence, the sciences and epistemology. His current research concerns the nature and epistemological role of perception – both natural and artificial. In particular, he is interested in what artificial neural networks can tell us about natural cognitive processes and their epistemological role, and how we can provide a good model of the role of perceptual experience in securing knowledge of our environment.
Dr Annette Zimmermann - 3rd Colloquium in the Summer Series on Stereotyping and Medical AI
The Sowerby Philosophy and Medicine Project invites attendees to the 3rd colloquium in our Summer Colloquium Series on 'Stereotyping and Medical AI'.
Metaphysics of Pregnancy Summer School
“We invite applications for an online Metaphysics of Pregnancy Summer School running from July 12th – 14th, 2021. Hosted by the Philosophy & Medicine project (a joint enterprise of King's College London and the Peter Sowerby Foundation) together with the ERC-funded BUMP (Better Understanding the Metaphysics of Pregnancy) project, it will take place over three half-days, with sessions from 1pm - 5pm BST (8am - 12pm ET) each day.
The summer school will provide doctoral students and early career researchers with a chance to read and discuss some new work on topics within the metaphysics of pregnancy. There will also be opportunities for those interested to present and get feedback on their own relevant work.”
Dr. Kathleen Creel - 2nd Colloquium in Series on Stereotyping & Medical AI
We are very pleased to announce that our second speaker in our Summer Colloquium Series on Stereotyping and Medical AI will be:
Dr. Kathleen Creel (HAI, EIS, Stanford)- "Let's Ask The Patient: Stereotypes, Personalization, and Risk in Medical AI"
Dr. Creel is the Embedded EthiCS fellow at Stanford University based in the Center for Ethics in Society (EiS) and the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI). Her current research explores the moral, political, and epistemic implications of machine learning as it is used in non-state automated decision making and in science. She also has other ongoing projects on early modern philosophy and general philosophy of science.
Deadline: Sowerby E&R (Education and Research) Career Development Lecturer
The Department of Philosophy at King's College London, in association with the Sowerby Project in Philosophy & Medicine, invites applications for a fixed term, two-year, career development lectureship. The post-holder will work in close collaboration with Peter Sowerby Chair Professor Elselijn Kingma to develop and expand the Philosophy & Medicine Project in all areas: research, teaching and public outreach. Find out more here.
Stereotyping and Medical AI: Professor Erin Beeghly (Utah)
This event is part of the Summer Colloquium Series on Stereotyping and Medical AI.
Professor Erin Beeghly (Utah) - "Stereotyping and Prejudice: The Problem of Statistical Stereotyping"
Erin Beeghly is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah. Her primary research interests lie at the intersection of ethics, epistemology, feminist philosophy, and moral psychology. Her current book project, What's Wrong With Stereotyping? (under contract with OUP), examines the conditions under which judging people by group membership is wrong. She and Alex Madva are co-editors of the first philosophical introduction to implicit bias: An Introduction to Implicit Bias: Knowledge, Justice, and the Social Mind (Routledge 2020). Beeghly also writes and teaches about topics within legal theory, including discrimination law.
Deadline: Peter Sowerby Studentship Competition
June 6th 2021 23:59 is the deadline for applying for the 2021/22 Peter Sowerby Studentship in Philosophy of Medicine. Application is open to students proposing a philosophical project with significance to medicine, nursing or midwifery. See here for details, including information on how to apply.