Minds, Models and Mechanisms:
Current Trends in Philosophy of Psychiatry
program
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Day 1, April 20th: Models of What, Precisely?
The main focus of the first day will be to clarify the matter at hand in the interdisciplinary group. The first keynote and two contributed talks will tackle the questions of what mental disorder models are, how to conceptualize “disease” or “disorder” to begin with, and to what extent mental disorders are brain disorders.
13:00 Welcome & Opening
13:40 Sanja Dembić (HU Berlin):
Mental Disorder: An Ability-based Approach
14:15 Tanja Michael (Saarbrücken):
Interventions in Post-Traumatic Stress-Disorder
15:00 Coffee
15:20 Henrik Walter (Charité Berlin):
Mental Disorders vs. Brain Disorders
16:15 Garson Leder (Alden March Bioethics Institute) & Tadeusz Zawidzki (George Washington University):
Mental Illness, Brain Disorders and Metacognitive Skill
17:00 Coffee
17:20 Roundtable Discussions / Gathering
17:50 Report from Roundtables / Open Discussion
18:10 Social Time
Day 2, April 21st: From Modelling to Diagnosing and Treating
On the second day, we shall focus on questions surrounding the construction and implications of mental disorder models. We will examine the contribution of recent network models in the context of psychopathology research, to what extent these are causal models, how to capture and assess the significance of clinical interventions (Michael), and how constructing general models of psychopathology squares with personalized treatment.
13:00 Coffee / Gathering
13:30 Linda Douw (VU Amsterdam):
Network Neuroscience in Lesional Brain Disease
14:25 Roberta Cubisino (Saarbrücken):
On modeling mental disorders: Epistemic richness and the case of PTSD
15:00 Coffee
15:20 Vera Hoffmann-Kolss (Bern) & Lena Kästner (Saarbrücken)
Correlation, Causation and Variable Selection in Multifactorial Models
16:05 Sabrina Coninx (Bochum) & Peter Stilwell (Montreal):
An Enactive Approach to Chronic Pain: Addressing Conceptual, Methodological, and Therapeutic Challenges
16:40 Coffee
17:00 Jackie Sullivan (Western University, Ontario):
New Frontiers in Translational Research: Touchscreens, Open Science and The Epistemic Community
17:55 Roundtable Discussions
18:25 Report from Roundtables / Open Discussion
18:45 Social Time
Day 3, April 22nd: Computational Models and the Plurality of Clinical Practice
The final day continues the interdisciplinary discussion in focusing on how to bring computational modelling of mental disorders together with clinical practice. On the one hand, we examine the potential of computational psychiatry for theory, diagnosis, and treatment of mental disorders. On the other, we examine the plurality of clinical reality and what this will demand of future modelling approaches.
13:00 Coffee / Gathering
13:30 Peter Dayan (MPI Tübingen):
Computational Psychiatry
14:25 Matteo Colombo (Tilburg):
Three epistemic roles of computational modelling in psychiatric therapy
15:00 Coffee
15:20 Adrian Kind (Otto-von-
Model-Based Diagnostic Reasoning in Clinical Psychiatry
15:55 Josephine Lenssen (Dimence Mental Health Institute, Zwolle):
Mosaic Models and Clinical Reality
16:40 Coffee
17:00 Roundtable Discussion
17:30 Report from Roundtables / Open Discussion
17:50 Closing and Farewell