GRIN Workshop: “Medicine and Philosophy: Reasoning from Specific Cases”

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When:
9 October 2025 – 10 October 2025 9 h 30 – 17 h 00
Where:
Room 307, Department of Philosophy, Université de Montréal, 2910 boulevard Édouard-Montpetit, Montréal, Québec

You are cordially invited to attend the workshop entitled “Medicine and Philosophy: Reasoning from Specific Cases,” which will be held on October 9-10, 2025, in room 307 at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Montreal, from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., located at 2910 Édouard-Montpetit Boulevard, Montréal, Québec.

We will have the opportunity to hear from Aude Bandini (University of Montreal), Katrin Solhdju (University of Mons), Patrick Garon-Sayegh (University of Montreal), Luc Faucher (UQAM), and Miriam Solomon (Temple University), who will share their thoughts on this theme. The idea behind the workshop is to promote reflection and discussion on the epistemological and methodological contribution of reasoning based on specific cases in the philosophy of medicine.

Event Schedule:

Thursday, October 9, 2025

  • 9:00 a.m.: Welcome
  • 9:30 a.m.: Annejulie Charest, Léo Portelance (Université de Montréal), and Laurence Dufour, Presentation of themes and central ideas of the workshop
  • 11:00 a.m.: Aude Bandini (Université de Montréal), “A Social Epistemology of “Experiential Knowledge”
  • 12:30 p.m.: Lunch
  • 2:00 p.m.: Katrin Solhdju (Université de Mons), “An “Assault on Reason” or an “At Last Rational Approach” to Therapeutic Thinking? The Case of Ethnopsychiatry”

Friday, October 10, 2025

  • 9:30 a.m.: Patrick Garon-Sayegh (Université de Montréal), “On the Centrality of Case-Based Reasoning in Medicine”
  • 11:00 a.m.: Luc Faucher (Université du Québec à Montréal), Titre à venir
  • 12:30 p.m.: Lunch
  • 2:00 p.m.: Miriam Solomon (Temple University), “The Philosophical Significance of Pivotal Cases”

To encourage maximum discussion and reflection, we invite you to write to the following email address to receive advance access to the workshop texts.

It will be possible to attend the workshop online via the following link.

We look forward to seeing many of you there.

*Please note that the event will be held in English.

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    Schedule:

    Morning session, chaired by Anne-Marie Gagné-Julien (Université Laval)

    • 9:30 a.m. – 9:40 a.m.: Opening remarks
    • 9:40 a.m. – 10:25 a.m.: Sandrine Renaud (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières), “Injustices Experienced by Adults Diagnosed with Psychotic Disorders in Mental Health Care: A Scoping Review”
    • 10:25 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.: Break
    • 10:30 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.: Axel Constant (University of Sussex), “The participatory stance: A veritistic social epistemology for patient knowledge”
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    Afternoon session (I), chaired by Luc Faucher (Université du Québec à Montréal)

    • 1:30 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.: Ian Gold (McGill University), “Devices and Delusions: James Tilly Matthews and the Air Loom”
    • 2:15 p.m. – 2:20 p.m.: Break
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    • 4:55 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.: Closing remarks

    The registration deadline is Sunday, May 24, 2026. To register, please scan the QR code below.

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