DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY AND COMMUNICATION STUDIES – FILCOM, UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA
DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL AND NEUROMOTOR SCIENCES – DIBINEM, UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA
PHILHEAD – RESEARCH CENTER IN PHILOSOPHY OF HEALTH AND DISEASE
International workshop
The epistemology of single cases: philosophical and medical issues
7 December 2018
Department of Philosophy and Communication, University of Bologna
Aula Mondolfo, Via Zamboni 38, 3rd Floor
10.00 Welcome and Opening address
Carlo Gentili (University of Bologna)
Raffaella Campaner (University of Bologna): “Why single cases matter: philosophical and medical insights”
Giovanna Cenacchi (University of Bologna): “Why an epistemology of single cases?”
Morning session: Single cases and rare diseases – Chair: Matteo Cerri (University of Bologna)
10.30-11.30 Laura Mazzanti and Maura Foresti (University of Bologna): “My particular phenotype: can we give it a name?”
11.30-12 Coffee Break
12-13 Corrado Angelini (San Camillo Hospital, IRCSS, Venezia): “Two brothers with X-linked Charcot Marie Tooth disease and different lifestyle: one a war pilot, the other disabled”
13-14 Lunch break
Afternoon session: Philosophical perspectives on single cases – Chair: Roberto Brigati (University of Bologna)
14-15 Margherita Benzi (University of Eastern Piedmont): “Causal reasoning about single cases”
15-16 Raphael Scholl (University of Cambridge): “One is the loneliest number: can single-case trials help in personalized medicine?”
16-16.30 Coffee Break
16.30-17.30 Jeremy Howick (University of Oxford): “Mechanism research or clinical observations generating medical discoveries? How fuzziness prevents the question from being answered”
17.30-18.30 General discussion and final remarks – Chair: Cristina Amoretti (University of Genova)
Organizers: Raffaella Campaner (raffaella.campaner@unibo.it) and Giovanna Cenacchi (giovanna.cenacchi@unibo.it)
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