CONFERENCE ON
MEDICINE AND METAPHYSICS
Department of Philosophy
University at Buffalo, NY
November 13-14, 2004
PROGRAM
9.00 Registration and continental breakfast
9.30 Welcoming remarks
Section I: Classification in Medicine
Chair: David Hunter
9.45 Olivier Bodenreider (National Library of Medicine): What
Do Biomedical Vocabularies Tell Us About Biomedicine?
10.45 Coffee
11.00 Louis Goldberg (University at
Buffalo): Four
Granular Layers in Biology
11.45 Barry Smith (University at Buffalo): The
Ontology of Biomedical Informatics
12.45 Lunch
Section II: Darwin, Disease and Design
Chair: John Kearns
1.45 Katherine Munn (IFOMIS, Saarbrücken): What Does
Functioning Have To Do With Survival?
2.30 Peter H. Schwartz (Boston
University): Demarcating
Dysfunction
3.15 Coffee
3.30 Christopher Boorse (University of Delaware): Four
Recent Accounts of Health
4.30 Coffee
4.45 Roundtable Discussion on
Boorse: William Mandrick, Kristo Miettinen, Stephen Wear, Randall Dipert
(University at Buffalo)
7.00 Dinner
8.30 Continental Breakfast
Section III: The Origin of the Human
Organism
Chair: Jiyuan Yu
9.30 Alfonso Gomez-Lobo
(Georgetown University): Sortals
and Human Beginnings
10.30 Rose Koch (University at Buffalo):
Conjoined
Twins and the Biological Account of Personal Identity
11.15 Coffee
11.30 S. Matthew Liao (Princeton
University): The
Organism View Defended
12.15 Chris Tollefsen (University of
South Carolina): Animalism
and the Unborn Human Being
1.00 Lunch
Section IV. The End
Chair: Jorge Gracia
2.00 John Martin Fischer (University of California at Riverside): Epicureanism
about Death and Immortality
3.00 Jeff McMahan (Rutgers
University): Prenatal
and Posthumous Non-Existence
4.00 Coffee
4.15 David
Hershenov (University at Buffalo): The
Definition of Death
Reviewing committee:
Randall Dipert, David Hershenov, Barry Smith (University at Buffalo)
For registration information please contact: Barry Smith