Working Groups

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Romanell Working Groups
Example of annual programming:
Note: Committees generally meet the third Tuesday of each month.

  • June - Ontology of Medicine Reading group. David Hershenov paper choice, Kingma’s “Naturalism about Health and Disease: Adding Nuance for Progress”, and David Limbaugh’s “Harm in the Damage Sense: The Concept of ‘Harm’ in the Concept of Mental Disorder”.
  • July - Romanell Conference keynote papers by Schechtman, Marquis and Lizza on personal identity and our Origins.
  • September - Health, Harm and Well-Being reading group. Jim Delaney paper choice, "Harm and the Boundaries of Disease” by McGivern and Sorial.
  • October - End of Life Issues Reading group. Neil Feit choice “The Time of Death’s Badness” by Jens Johansson.
  • November - Clinical Ethics Reading Group. Harvey Berman paper choic,e tba.
  • December - Creation and Enhancement Reading group. Rose Hershenov paper choice, tba.
  • January - Ontology of Medicine Reading Group. John Keller paper choice, Peter Graham selections from George Graham’s An Introduction to Philosophy of Mind and Mental Illness.
  • February - Autonomy, Addiction and Accountability Reading Group, Rob Kelly paper choice, “Addiction and the Concept of Disorder by Jerry Wakefield.
  • March- Foundations of Bioethics Reading Group. Steve Kershnar paper choice, “Can Consequences be Right Makers”.
  • April - Health, Harm and Well-Being Working group. David Limbaugh paper choice, Stephen M. Campbell's: The Concept of Well-Being.
  • May - Geert Craanen paper choice, Onora O’Neil’s “Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics”.
  • June - End of Life Reading Group: Phil Reed paper choice, Jukka Varelius “ Mental Illness, Natural Death, and non-Voluntary Passive Euthanasia.”
  • July - Keynoter papers in preparation for 2018 Romanell Conference.