Overview

This open access collection brings together a team of leading scholars and rising stars to consider what experimental philosophy of medicine is and can be. While experimental philosophy of science is an established field, attempts to tackle issues in philosophy of medicine from an experimental angle are still surprisingly scarce. A team of interdisciplinary scholars demonstrate how we can make progress by integrating a variety of methods from experimental philosophy, including experiments, sociological surveys, simulations, as well as history and philosophy of science, in order to yield meaningful results about the core questions in medicine. They focus on concepts central to philosophy of medicine and medical practice, such as death, pain, disease and disorder, advance directives, medical explanation, disability and informed consent. Presenting empirical findings and providing a crucial foundation for future work in this dynamic field, this collection explores new ways for philosophers to cooperate with scientists and reveals the value of these collaborations for both philosophy and medicine. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the European Research Council Starting Grant.

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Author:   Dr Kristien Hens (University of Antwerp, Belgium) ,  Andreas De Block (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.520kg
ISBN:  

9781350281561

ISBN 10:   1350281565
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   24 April 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Whither (Experimental) Philosophy of Medicine?, Kristien Hens (University of Antwerp, Belgium) and Andreas De Block (KU Leuven, Belgium) 1. Experimental Philosophy of Psychiatry: A Survey, Luc Faucher and Gaëtan Béghin (both University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada) 2. Concepts of Function in Biology and Biomedicine, Joshua R. Christie, Zachary Wilkinson, Stefan A. Gawronski and Paul E. Griffiths (all University of Sydney, Australia) 3. The Folk Concept of Disease, Edouard Machery (University of Pittsburgh, USA) 4. Does the Lay Concept of Mental Disorder Necessitate a Dysfunction?, Gaëtan Béghin and Luc Faucher (both University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada) 5. What Experimental Philosophy of Disease Should and Should Not Be, Mael Lemoine and Simon Okholm (both University of Bordeaux, France) 6. Simulation of Trial Data to Test Speculative Hypotheses About Research Methods, Jacob Stegenga and Hamed Tabatabaei Ghomi (both University of Cambridge, UK) 7. Experimental Philosophy of Medical Explanation: Why and How Should We Do It?, Erik Weber (Ghent University, Belgium) and Bert Leuridan (University of Antwerp, Belgium) 8. Explanatory Pluralism In Oncology. The Case of Neoantigen-Based Adoptive Cell Transfer Immunotherapies, Luca Chiapperino, Nils Graber and Francesco Panese 9. The History of the Concept of Pain: How the Experts Came to be Out of Touch with the Folk, Benjamin Goldberg (University of Pittsburgh, USA), Kevin Reuter (University of Zurich, Switzerland) and Justin Sytsma (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) 10. Death and Personal Identity: An Empirical Study on Folk Metaphysics, Ivars Neiders (University of Latvia, Latvia) and Vilius Draseika (Jagiellonian University, Poland) 11. Does Exculpation Stigmatise?, Jo Bervoets (University of Antwerp, Belgium) and Audun Benjamin Bengtson (KU Leuven, Belgium) 12. Blaming the Mother? A Philosophical Vignette Study on (Non-)Identity, Disability and Quality of Life, Emma Moormann (University of Antwerp, Belgium) 13. Experimental Philosophical Bioethics, Advance Directives, and the True Self in Dementia, Brian D. Earp (Yale University, USA), Ivar R. Hannikainen, Samuel Dale (University of Toronto, Canada) and Stephen R. Latham (Yale University, USA) 14. The Communicative Effects of Metaphors for Vaccination as a Collective Health Endeavor, Francesca Ervas, Pietro Salis and Rachele Fanari (all University of Cagliari, Italy) 15. Philosophy of Psychiatry Meets Experimental Philosophy: Expertise Naturalized, Serife Tekin (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA) Index

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"""This exciting volume bridges the gap between philosophers' armchair analyses and how people actually think about medical concepts, with enormous practical as well as theoretical implications. From pain to the essence of the self, from death to mental disorder, philosophers' theories of the concepts by which we construct our medical universe are put to empirical test in ways that provoke and illuminate. This is a foundational volume for a field sure to burgeon in coming years."" --Jerome C. Wakefield, Professor of Social Work and the Conceptual Foundations of Psychiatry, New York University, USA ""This is a remarkable volume showcasing new empirical approaches that are pushing the boundaries of traditional philosophy of medicine and psychiatry. It reflects the maturation of x-phi as a discipline, and highlights how fresh perspectives and innovative methods of the discipline are forcing philosophers and physicians alike to reconsider long-held positions."" --Awais Aftab, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University, USA. ""Recent decades have seen nearly every area of philosophy, from semantics to epistemology to metaethics, fruitfully engaging with methods of experimental philosophy. Now Hens and De Block have put together an excellent and pathbreaking collection of essays that examine how those methods illuminate core issues in the philosophy of medicine."" --Daniel Kelly, Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University, USA"

This exciting volume bridges the gap between philosophers' armchair analyses and how people actually think about medical concepts, with enormous practical as well as theoretical implications. From pain to the essence of the self, from death to mental disorder, philosophers’ theories of the concepts by which we construct our medical universe are put to empirical test in ways that provoke and illuminate. This is a foundational volume for a field sure to burgeon in coming years. * Jerome C. Wakefield, Professor of Social Work and the Conceptual Foundations of Psychiatry, New York University, USA * This is a remarkable volume showcasing new empirical approaches that are pushing the boundaries of traditional philosophy of medicine and psychiatry. It reflects the maturation of x-phi as a discipline, and highlights how fresh perspectives and innovative methods of the discipline are forcing philosophers and physicians alike to reconsider long-held positions. * Awais Aftab, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University, USA. * Recent decades have seen nearly every area of philosophy, from semantics to epistemology to metaethics, fruitfully engaging with methods of experimental philosophy. Now Hens and De Block have put together an excellent and pathbreaking collection of essays that examine how those methods illuminate core issues in the philosophy of medicine. * Daniel Kelly, Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University, USA *

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Kristien Hens is Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. Andreas De Block is Full Professor in the Institute of Philosophy at KU Leuven, Belgium.

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