CONFERENCE ON MEDICINE AND METAPHYSICS
Department of Philosophy
University at Buffalo, NY
November 13-14, 2004

PROGRAM
SATURDAY November 13, 2004

Section I: Classification in Medicine
9.45     Olivier Bodenreider (National Library of Medicine): What Do Biomedical Vocabularies Tell Us About Biomedicine?
11.00   Louis Goldberg (University at Buffalo): Four Granular Layers in Biology
11.45   Barry Smith (University at Buffalo): The Ontology-Epistemology Divide

Section II: Darwin, Disease and Design
1.45     Katherine Munn and Nikoloz Tsikolia (IFOMIS, SaarbrŸcken): What Does Functioning Have To Do With Survival?
2.30     Peter H. Schwartz (Boston University): Demarcating Dysfunction
3.30     Christopher Boorse (University of Delaware): Four Recent Accounts of Health
4.45     Roundtable Discussion on Boorse

SUNDAY November 14, 2004

Section III: The Origin of the Human Organism
9.30     Alfonso Gomez-Lobo (Georgetown University): Sortals and Beginnings
10.30   Rose Koch (University at Buffalo): Conjoined Twins and the Biological Account of Personal Identity
11.30   S. Matthew Liao (Princeton University): The Organism View Defended
12.15   Chris Tollefsen (University of South Carolina): Animalism and the Unborn Human Being

Section IV. The End
2.00     John Martin Fischer (University of California at Riverside): Topics in the Metaphysics of Death
3.00     Jeff McMahan (Rutgers University): Brain Death: The Argument from Integrated Functioning
4.15     David Hershenov (University at Buffalo): The Definition of Death

Registration information will be posted at http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medicine_and_metaphysics/

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