Chers collègues, Veuillez trouver ci-dessous l’annonce du prochain séminaire PhilInBioMed qui est ouvert à tous *via* Zoom.
Bien cordialement. *Please circulate this announcement * *November 27th 2020, 16h00-17h30* *Virtual seminar via zoom* *Antoine Dussault **(CIRST, Montréal)* *"Towards a Holistic-Functionalist Account of Pathology"* *A PhilInBioMed seminar* <https://www.philinbiomed.org/event/antoine-dussault-associate-professor-cirst-montreal-canada/> *Open to all via **Zoom <https://u-bordeaux-fr.zoom.us/j/86273040427?pwd=VUNkcDZPS0FCVGI4ZzNGUFNmS0NYZz09>* *Towards a Holistic-Functionalist Account of Pathology* This presentation will be about a central dimension of the naturalism/normativism debate in the philosophy of medicine: the issue of whether pathology should be defined (fully or partly) in relation to the prudential concept of harm (e.g. Wakefield 1992; 2014), or exclusively in relation to biological notions of dysfunction and/or abnormality (e.g. Boorse 1997; 2014). I will defend the second approach, but argue, drawing on remarks by Wakefield (2014) and Kingma (2017) on challenges faced by fully functionalist accounts of pathology, that a functionalist account of pathology should focus on dysfunctions occurring at the level of organisms as a whole, rather than on dysfunctions occurring at the level of their parts (as Boorse’s BST and Wakefield’s HDA do). I will give a sketch of what such an account would look like, and situate it with respect to Boorse’s concept of illness (which he contrasts to pathology) and Werkhoven’s (2018) recent dispositional account. *Antoine Dussault* <https://acdussault.profweb.ca/en/> is a philosophy teacher at *Collège Lionel-Groulx* <http://www.clg.qc.ca/> (Sainte-Thérèse, Québec). He is also a researcher in the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur les sciences et les technologies (*CIRST <http://www.cirst.uqam.ca/>*) and a regular member of the Centre de recherche en éthique (*CRÉ <http://www.lecre.umontreal.ca/>*). His areas of specialization are : philosophy of biology environmental ethics, philosophy of medicine. For more information click *here <https://www.philinbiomed.org/event/antoine-dussault-associate-professor-cirst-montreal-canada/>* . Best regards, *Imane BARBARA* *Project Manager ERC-IDEM* Unité d’immunologie (ImmunoConcEpT, UMR5164) Université de Bordeaux 146 rue Léo Saignat 33076 Bordeaux. Tel. +33 (0)5 57 57 56 98 https://erc-idem.cnrs.fr/ <http://erc-idem.cnrs.fr/> - Twitter <https://twitter.com/erc_idem?lang=fr> -- https://www.vidal-rosset.net/mailing_list_educasupphilo.html
