Event Details

Sponsored by the British Society for the Philosophy of Science

This workshop provides an informal forum where PhD students, and more experienced researchers, can present and discuss short works in progress. All paper slots are taken for 2026. Please email r.v.cooper@lancaster.ac.uk if you'd like to attend.

THURSDAY 26^th FEB

10.45-11 Welcome

11-11.30 Hane Maung - Philosophy in Healthcare Practice: A Case Study.

11.30-12 Peter Jones - Hodges' model: A work-ALWAYS-in-progress and this is why...

12-12.30 Matthew Williams - The failure of the harm-minimisation argument for BID Surgery and the necessity of therapeutic justification

12.30-1 Clive Duddy – Autonomy in mental health care

1-2 LUNCH

2-2.30 George Turner - Difference denied.

2.30-3 Dieneke Hubbeling - Different ways of medical knowing in Walzer's different spheres of justice?

3-3.30 Ali Walker - Forget Fictionalism: Psychiatric Disorders are Quasi-Real

3.30-4 Ewa Grzeszczak - Philosophy of psychiatry and the methodology of social ontology.

4-4.30 Break

4.30-5 Alessandra Civani - What kind of concept is ‘incongruence’?

5-5.30 Anna Golova - Self-illness ambiguity without a self-illness distinction.

5.30-6 Break

6-7 Prof Miriam Solomon – Royal Institute of Philosophy talk ‘Stigma as an actant in the history of psychiatry’

FRIDAY 27^th Feb

11-11.30 Sam Fellowes - Modelling psychiatric diagnoses when self-diagnosing - how does this work?

11.30-12 Giulia Russo - Epistemic and political role of experience

12-12.30 Frank Denning - Using Stebbing’s Directional Analysis to Evaluate ‘Mentalizing’.

12.30-1 Gloria Ayob - Flourishing as mental health

1-2 LUNCH

2-2.30 Richard Hassall - Hermeneutical Injustice and Damaged Intellectual Self-Trust in Psychiatric Service Users.

2.30-3 Lara Calabrese - Exploring epistemic injustice in dementia care: a scoping review and a qualitative study

3-3.30 Jacob Barlow - Epistemic borders: experts, communities, communication