Owen Flanagan will present, Identity and Addiction: What Alcoholic Memoirs Teach. Dinner will be provided. This event is open to all - kindly RSVP to Dan Moseley at daniel.moseley@unc.edu.

We will discuss Jennifer Radden and Somogy Varga's "The Epistemological Value of Depression Memoirs: A Meta-Analysis" (Chapter 9 of The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry) at the next PPRG meeting, which will be Wednesday, September 3 in room 213 … Read more

Molly Gardner will lead a discussion of Lauren Greenfield's 2006 documentary "Thin." The film is available streaming via Amazon Prime. We will meet on Wednesday, September 17 from 7:30pm-9:00pm in room 213 of Caldwell Hall. Refreshments will be provided. Please … Read more

Professor Warren Kinghorn (Duke) will present, "The Political Science of Psychiatric Diagnosis: A Moral Defense of the DSM".

For the last PPRG meeting of the Fall 2014 semester, Dan Moseley will give a presentation on gun violence and mental disorders. The talk will focus on ethical, legal and political issues that emerge from taking a public health perspective … Read more

The first PPRG meeting of the year will next Thursday, February 5. We will discuss George Szmukler's  "Coercion in Psychiatric Treatment and Its Justifications" and a commentary on it by Ken Levy and Alex Cohen entitled "Mental Illness, Dangerousness, and … Read more

** Tonight's PPRG meeting has been cancelled due to a winter weather advisory.  ** The presentation by Elizabeth (Lizzie) Schecter (Washington University in St. Louis) “On the Possibility of Pluralindividualism”  will be postponed. Dr. Schecter will present her paper to … Read more

Jennifer Hawkins (Duke) will lead our PPRG discussion this week. We will discuss Scott Kim’s “The Place of Ability to Value in the Evaluation of Decision-Making Capacity” and Jennifer Hawkins’ response: “Decision-Making Capacity and Value”. We'll meet this Thursday from … Read more