10.00
Welcome and Opening address Carlo Gentili (Head of Department, FILCOM, Universi ty of Bologna)
Raffaella Campaner (FILCOM, University of Bologna):“Why single cases matter: philosophical and medical insights”
Giovanna Cenacchi (DIBINEM, University of Bologna): “Why an epistemology of single cases?”
Morning session:
Single cases and rare diseases – Chair: Matteo Cerri (DIBINEM, University of Bologna)
10.30-11.30
Laura Mazzanti and Maura Foresti (Pediatric Rare Di seases Unit, ITHACA-ERN, St.Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital, University of Bologna): “My particular phenotype: can we give it a name?”
11.30-12
Coffee Break
12-13
Corrado Angelini (Neurobiology Lab, San Camillo Hos pital, IRCSS, Venezia): “Two brothers with X-linked Charcot Marie Tooth disease and different lifestyle: one a war pilot, the other disabled”
13-14
Lunch break
Afternoon session:
Philosophical perspectives on single cases – Chair: Roberto Brigati (FILCOM, University of Bologna)
14-15
Margherita Benzi (Department of Law and Political, Economic and Social Sciences, University of Eastern Piedmont, Alessandria): “Causal reasoning about single cases”
15-16
Raphael Scholl (Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge): “One is the loneliest number: can single-case trials help in personalized medicine?”
16-16.30
Coffee Break
16.30-17.30
Jeremy Howick (Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford): “Mechanism research or clinical observations generating medical discoveries? How fuzziness prevents the question from being answered”
17.30-18.30 General discussion and final remarks
Chair: Cristina Amoretti (Department of Classics, Philosophy, History, University of Genova)
With the participation of: Marta Bertolaso (Institute of Philosophy of the Scientific and Technological Practice, University Campus Bio-Medic o, Rome); Roberto Gronda (Department of Civilizations and Forms of Knowledge, University of Pisa); Elisabetta Lalumera (Department of Psychology, University of Milano Bicocca); Patrizia Pedrini (Department of Humanistic Studies and Education, University of Florence); Viola Schiaffonati (Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano)
Organizers: Raffaella Campaner (raffaella.campaner@unibo.it) and Giovanna Cenacchi(giovanna.cenacchi@unibo.it)