Name: Christopher Boorse - 'New Replies to Critics'
Start: 2022-11-10T17:00:00Z
End: 2022-11-10T18:30:00Z
Location: Franklin Wilkins Building

Christopher Boorse - 'New Replies to Critics'

Sowerby Philosophy & Medicine Project, King's College London

Join us for the second colloquium in our series 'New Work on the Concepts of Health and Disease'.

Franklin Wilkins Building

We&#x27;re very pleased to announce the second colloquium in our series &#x27;New Work on the Concepts of Health and Disease&#x27;. On the 10th of November, Christopher Boorse will be giving a talk entitled &#x27;New Replies to Critics&#x27;. There will be an option to attend in person (Room 1.11, Franklin Wilkins Building, Waterloo Campus, King&#x27;s College London) or online. Abstract: &quot;I shall reply to various critics -- most writing since my “Second rebuttal on health” (2014) -- of my goal-contribution account of function (1976, 2002) and of my analysis of health in scientific medicine, the “biostatistical theory” (BST) (1977, 1987, 1997, 2014), that is based upon it. Issues at stake include whether there is such a thing as normal biological function (Amundson); whether normal function is, or ought to be, the basis of theoretical or practical health in medicine; whether selected-effect (SE) analyses of function are superior to goal-contribution ones in this regard, or otherwise (Garson, Neander, Wakefield, Casini, Griffiths and Matthewson); and whether the reference class for medical normality is an objective scientific fact or the result of evaluative choice (Kingma, Binney). Two important special cases of the reference-class problem are osteoporosis (Binney) and aging (Rogers and Walker).&quot;

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