This group – let’s call it Philmed-RG – will have a couple of pilot meetings in July, before settling into a series of meetings in the period September-December, after the Northern summer break is over. (Read more about the group here.)

We have over 130 expressions of interest from all over the world, so we are looking to split the meetings into two, at different sides of the clock. Therefore we propose the following first two meetings and readings.

1. Fagerberg, H. (2023). What We Argue about when We Argue about Disease. Philosophy of Medicine, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.5195/pom.2023.172
   • Thursday 11 July at 5pm BST
   • Friday 12 July at 9am BST
2. Stoellger, D. (2023). Why It (Also) Matters What Infectious Disease Epidemiologists Call “Disease”. Philosophy of Medicine, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.5195/pom.2023.149
   • Thursday 25 July at 5pm BST
   • Friday 26 July at 9am BST

The zoom link will be circulated to the reading group email list. You may request to join the list and group here: https://groups.google.com/g/philmed-rg/

We look forward to seeing you at one of these meetings!

The Philmed-RG Organising Committee (Alex Broadbent, Elisabetta Lalumera, Sarah Wieten)

In various conversations, some of us have thought it might be nice to have a reading group on philosophy of medicine, with international reach. As well as creating a nice place for regular conversations, this might support people who feel a bit isolated where they are, to connect more with the international philosophy of medicine community. And of course it encourages those of us who suffer from “readers block” to read on a regular basis!

We haven’t yet decided what to read, or exactly how often to meet. So we might do a sort of pilot, and continue if it feels good, or drop it otherwise. As a rough guide, we’re imagining having maybe 8 or 10 meetings at intervals of 2 or 3 weeks, each lasting about 90 mins. These might run Sept-Dec (perhaps with some earlier meetings in June/July for those who are free). Then we review, and decide whether to line another series of meetings up for the following year. However, everything is open.

If you would like to be part of this experiment, please would you drop us a line at cpemph@durham.ac.uk? No commitment.