Special issue on experimental philosophy of medicine: call for abstracts

Experimental Philosophy of Medicine

  

This special issue wants to explore a new subfield: the experimental philosophy of medicine. While experimental philosophy of science is already quite established, attempts to tackle issues in philosophy of medicine from an experimental angle have been very scarce. This is all the more remarkable, given the quite outspoken naturalistic inclinations of many philosophers of medicine, their general willingness to set up interdisciplinary collaborations with scientists, also with scientists whose research is primarily experimental. Moreover, much of mainstream bioethics is empirical, and is based on interviews or surveys.

It should be noted that, for this issue, we construe ‘experimental philosophy’ rather widely, including many sorts of empirical research with a clear philosophical focus, and methodological considerations on an experimental/naturalistic philosophy of medicine. Even though we would like to leave the choice of topic open to the authors, we have a list of topics that strike us as intriguing issues to explore: the role of biology in understanding and attributing responsibility, empirical work on conceptual understanding in the biomedical sciences (illness, gene, cell, mechanism …), empirical research on (variation in) intuitions on the metaphysics of disease, conceptions of medical virtues among lay people or professionals, and corpus analysis of medical texts, …

Several authors have already confirmed their contribution to this special issue: Dan Kelly, Stefan Linquist, Anna Smajdor and Brian Earp.

How to submit?

 

Please submit an abstract (300-450 words) before March 27, 2020 to Kristien Hens. You will receive a notification of acceptance by April 3. Deadline for the papers is June 30.

 

For more information, you can contact Andreas Deblock.