Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Medicine

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.

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)

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