Presentations

Conference Presentations from 2003-Present

Who is in Charge? Paradoxes of Agency in Addiction. International Network for Philosophy and Psychiatry. Manchester, United Kingdom, June, 27-30, 2010.

Neuroscientific Foundations of Affective Psychopathology: Rediscovering Alexander Crichton (1763-1856). International Society for the History of Neuroscience. Paris, France, June 15-19, 2010.

Philippe Pinel at the Salpêtrière: Historical Beginnings of Evidence-Based Psychiatry. Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry. New Orleans, La. U.S.A., May 22-23, 2010.

Some Historical Reflections on the Concept of Recovery. International Network for Philosophy and Psychiatry, Lisbon, Oct 24, 2009.

Ethical Aspects of Informed Consent to Opioid Agonist Treatment. Canadian Society of Addiction Medicine. Nov 1, 2008. Vancouver, B.C. Canada

Consumer Freedom and the Digital Manufacture of Madness. International Network for Philosophy and Psychiatry. Dallas, Texas, Oct. 6-8, 2008.

What Can Philosophy Contribute to Addiction Medicine? Canadian Society of Addiction Medicine. Ottawa, October 10-13, 2007.

The Moral Nature of the DSM IV Borderline Personality Diagnosis and its Implications for Chinese Psychiatry and the CCMD-3. World Psychiatric Association, Shanghai, September 17-23, 2007.

Valence and the Status of Emotion as a Scientific Domain. 13th International Congress on Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science. Beijing, China, Aug 9-15, 2007.

Moral Treatment at the York Retreat. International Society for Research on Emotion. Coolum, Queensland, Australia. July 11-15, 2007.

Mental Competence and Emotion. (Presentation 1) Anorexia and the Paradox of Best Interests. (Presentation 2)  International Association of Law and Mental Health. Padua, Italy. June 25-July 1, 2007.

Decisional Capacity and Addiction: The Case of Heroin Prescription. Third ‘Mind and World’ Conference: What is Addiction? University of Alabama at Birmingham, May 4-6, 2007.

Technological Reason and the Regulation of Emotion. Annual Meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Psychiatry. Atlanta, Georgia. May 29-30, 2005.

A Madness for Identity. Annual Meeting. Canadian Bioethics Society. Calgary, Alberta, October 28-31, 2004.

A Madness for Identity. 7th International Congress on Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology. Heidelberg, Germany. September, 23-26, 2004.

The Natural Kind Status of Emotion. 12th International Congress for Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science. Oviedo, Spain, August 2003.

Is Consciousness Necessary for Valence? A Dialogue. International Society for Research on Emotion. New York, July 11, 2004.

Indeterminacy of Valence. Joint Conference of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology and the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Barcelona, Spain. July 3, 2004.

Le Traitement Moral. Canadian Philosophical Association. Winnipeg, Manitoba. May 28-June 2, 2004.

The Natural Kind Status of Emotion. International Congress on Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science. Oviedo, Spain, August 2003.

A Moral Line in the Sand: Psychopharmacology and Mental Illness. Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry. American Psychiatric Association, May 18-19, San Francisco, 2003.