Thursday 18 July 2024

• 09:00 - Philosophy and Psychiatry Summer School 2024: Mind, Value and Mental Health (2 Day event)
  This interactive two-day programme will focus on the following themes: Delusion (keynote topic), Philosophical Perspectives on Depression, Mental Disorder and Creativity, Neurodiversity and the Political Economy of Normal Functioning, The 'Insanity Defence' and the Criminal Law, What is Expertise by Experience? and Precision Psychiatry Throughout the event, participants will engage in an intellectually stimulating environment featuring guest lectures and seminars. Presentations – each of which pairs a philosopher with an expert from outside philosophy including clinicians, scientists and people with lived experience – are informal and designed to encourage substantial dialogue with and among the audience. To be held in the state-of-the-art new Anniversary Building situated alongside the river at St Hilda’s College.
  Lucy O'Brien (Richard Wollheim Professor of Philosophy, UCL), Philip McGuire (Professor of Psychiatry, University of Oxford. Academic Director, SPRINT. Principal Investigator, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging), Alexander Bird (Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge), Robert Chapman (Assistant Professor, Critical Neurodiversity Studies, Durham University), Claire Hogg (Lecturer in Law, University of Surrey), Dr Edward Harcourt (Fellow & Tutor in Philosophy, Radcliffe Humanities, University of Oxford), Cecily Whiteley (Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of St Andrews)