Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the information below is subject to change,
in particular that concerning the teaching mode (presential, distance or in a comodal or hybrid format).
3 credits
30.0 h
Q1
Teacher(s)
Luyckx Charlotte (compensates Verdée Peter); Verdée Peter;
Language
French
Content
Course overview:
- General Introduction
- What is philosophy? Philosophy seen as the original science
- Historical and thematic introduction
- Relationship between medicine and philosophy
- Ontology
- Body and mind. The concepts of reduction, emergence and emergence
- Life: Its evolution and attempts to delineate the concept
- Illness and Health. Normality and Pathology
- Epistemology
- EBM (Evidence Based Medicine) and its limitations
- Causality in medicine and the importance of statistics
- Logic
- Medical diagnosis: forms of reasoning
- Philosophy of science
- Values in science
- Pseudoscience / alternative medicine
- Ethics
- Morality in medicine (responsibility, ethics, legality, usefulness of expertise)
- Phenomenology
- Pain and well-being
Teaching methods
Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the information in this section is particularly likely to change.
Ex cathedra course with some exercises in small groups
Evaluation methods
Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the information in this section is particularly likely to change.
January- Writing exercise during the quadrimester
- Multiple choice exam in the January exam period
- Writing exercise to be handed in during the Juin exam period
- Multiple choice exam in the Juin exam period
- Writing exercise to be handed in during the September exam period
- Multiple choice exam in the September exam period
Bibliography
FELTZ B. : La science et le vivant. Philosophie des sciences et modernité critique, Bruxelles, de Boeck, 2014.
Teaching materials
- Une série de fichiers PowerPoint seront mis à la disposition des étudiants sur la page moodle du cours.
Faculty or entity
MED
