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Workshop: Explaining Cancer

28 Friday Oct 2022

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The workshop ‘Explaining Cancer’ is happening next Tuesday (1st November) at London School of Economics, which among other excellent speakers features our very own Sowerby Professor Elselijn Kingma. Read more below or visit LSE’s event page here. 

Don’t forget to also register for the 2022 Annual Sowerby Lecture and the Interdisciplinary Workshop, both also happening next week, if you haven’t already!
 

Expert Workshop – Explaining Cancer

Anya Plutynski is the winner of the 2021 Lakatos Award for her book Explaining Cancer. Finding Order in Disorder (OUP 2018). To engage fully with the winner’s work, we organise an expert workshop on the day of the Award Lecture. The workshop features four talks by experts on the cancer research who engage with themes from Plutynski’s book.

Date and Place: 1 November 2022, Lakatos Building, Room LAK2.06

Organiser: Roman Frigg

13.30 – 13.50   Anya Plutynski (Washington University in St. Louis): Précis of Explaining Cancer

13.50 – 14.40   Samir Okasha (University of Bristol): Cancer, Causality and Evolution: some reflections on Anya Plutynski’s Understanding Cancer.

14.40 – 15.30    Lucie Laplane (Sorbonne Paris I): Where does Philosophy of Cancer stand?

15.30 – 16.00    Coffee Break

16.00 – 16.50    Elselijn Kingma (King’s College London): Cancer, screening, and the concepts of health and disease

16.50 – 17.40    Carl Cranor (UC Riverside): Varieties of Scientific Evidence for Policies”

2018 Annual Sowerby Lecture

03 Wednesday Oct 2018

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13 November 2018 – 19:30-21:00

Reflections on why I want what I want from research and researchers — as a patient

Lecture: Sir Iain Chalmers

Theatre 2, New Hunt’s House, KCL Guy’s Campus

Click here for details and here for the Facebook event page.

Peter Sowerby Essay Contest 2018

03 Wednesday Oct 2018

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Topic: “Doctor, will my treatment make me better?” Who is responsible for reducing uncertainties about the effects of treatments?

Eligibility: Students and alumni of all University of London schools, including undergraduate and postgraduate, and medical and professional schools.

Prize: £500

Length: less than 4,000 words

Due: 28 October 2018

Submission: Prepare your paper for blind review by making sure your name does not appear anywhere in the pages of the file, and send it to philandmed@kcl.ac.uk. Essays will be assessed by a panel of distinguished academics from the University of London, chaired by Dr Tuomas Pernu.

Click here for more details.

2017 Sowerby Annual Lecture in Philosophy & Medicine

07 Tuesday Nov 2017

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This Thursday, 9 November – 19:30-21:00:

Mental Health and Justice: Classical and Romantic perspectives
 (followed by a reception)

Lecture: Gareth Owen – King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience

Location: Theatre 2 — New Hunt’s House, KCL Guy’s Campus, London

All very welcome!
Bring your KCL ID card — those with no KCL ID need to register here: http://philosophyandmedicine.org/events/annual-lecture-3/

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