This is an open international reading group, hosted by the Centre but open to all, for bringing together people with interests in philosophy of medicine construed broadly to include epidemiology, public health, biomedical science, and so on. If you would like to join, please request membership of the google group and you’ll be able to access the meeting link there: https://groups.google.com/g/philmed-rg/

Each week there will be two online meetings of the group to discuss the same text, one on Wednesday night at 5pm UK time, one on Friday morning at 9 am UK time, in hopes of accommodating group members in a variety of time zones. There is no need to attend all meetings-please come when you can.

1. Wednesday Oct 16 5pm (Chair: Alex), and Friday Oct 18 9am (Chair: Sarah) to read: Varga 2023, Science, Medicine, and the Aims of Inquiry A Philosophical Analysis. https://www.doi.org/10.1017/9781009449977 Beginning through chapter 2, pages 1-55
2. Wednesday Oct 23rd 5pm (Alex), Friday Oct 25th 9am (Alex). Varga 2023, Science, Medicine, and the Aims of Inquiry A Philosophical Analysis https://www.doi.org/10.1017/9781009449977 Chapters 3 and 4, pages 56-104
3. Wednesday Oct 30th 5pm (Elisabetta), Friday Nov 1 9am (Sarah). Varga 2023, Science, Medicine, and the Aims of Inquiry A Philosophical Analysis https://www.doi.org/10.1017/9781009449977 Chapter 5
4. Wednesday Nov 6 5pm (Elisabetta), Friday Nov 8 9am (Sarah). Varga 2023, Science, Medicine, and the Aims of Inquiry A Philosophical Analysis https://www.doi.org/10.1017/9781009449977 Chapter 6
5. Wednesday Nov 13 5pm (tbc), Friday Nov 15 9 am (Sarah). Varga 2023, Science, Medicine, and the Aims of Inquiry A Philosophical Analysis https://www.doi.org/10.1017/9781009449977 Chapter 7
6. Wednesday Nov 20 5pm (Alex), Friday Nov 22 9am (Sarah). Chapter 8 and Conclusion.
7. Wednesday Nov 27 5pm (Elisabetta), Friday Nov 29 9 am (Sarah). Spencer and Carel 2021, ‘Isn’t Everyone a Little OCD?’ The Epistemic Harms of Wrongful Depathologization https://doi.org/10.5195/pom.2021.19
8. Wednesday Dec 4 5pm (Alex), Friday Dec 6 9 am (Elisabetta). John 2022, Death Sentences: Criminalization, Medicalization, and the Nature of Disease https://doi.org/10.5195/pom.2022.48
9. Wednesday Dec 11 5pm (Alex), Friday Dec 13 9 am (Elisabetta). Grote 2023, The Allure of Simplicity, On Interpretable Machine Learning Models in Healthcare https://doi.org/10.5195/pom.2023.139

Any enquiries, please get in touch. And to join, it’s https://groups.google.com/g/philmed-rg/