CRASSH

Autonomy and Mental Health

Thursday, 7 January 2010 to Friday, 8 January 2010
Location: CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge

Thursday 7 January
9.45 - 10.15	Registration and refreshments
10.15 - 10.30	Welcome and introduction: Dr Lubomira Radoilska
10.30 - 13.00	Session 1: Conceptions of Autonomy Chair: Prof. Nigel Eastman (St. George’s Hospital Medical School)
	Prof. Bill Fulford (Fellow of St Cross College, University of Oxford, and Professor of Philosophy and Mental Health, University of Warwick) Delusion and Spiritual Experience: the Challenge from Psychopathology for Philosophical Theories of Autonomy
	Dr Jules Holroyd (Lecturer, School of English, Communication & Philosophy, Cardiff University) Clarifying Capacity: Autonomy and Value
	Dr Jens Timmermann (Senior Lecturer in Moral Philosophy, University of St. Andrews) The Benefits of Kantian Autonomy
13.00 - 14.30	Lunch
14.30 - 17.00	Session 2: Autonomy in Context Chair: Prof. Chris Heginbotham (International School for Communities, Rights, and Inclusion, University of Central Lancashire)
	Prof. Jennifer Radden (Professor and Chair, Philosophy Department, University of Massachusetts) Privacy and Patient Autonomy in Mental Health Care
	Prof. Guy Widdershoven (Professor of Medical Philosophy and Ethics and Chair, Department of Medical Humanities, University of Amsterdam) Autonomy, Dialogue, and Practical Rationality
	Dr Lubomira Radoilska (Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge) Autonomy avant la lettre: Self-Rule and the Capacity for Friendship
17.00 - 18.00	Welcome reception
19.30	Conference dinner: Trinity Hall, Cambridge Open to all conference participants - advance payment necessary

Friday 8 January
09:30 - 10:00	Coffee and tea
10.00 - 12.30	Session 3: Rational Agency and Mental Disorder Chair: Rev. Mark Bratton (Medical Law and Ethics, University of Warwick)
	Prof. Derek Bolton (Professor of Philosophy & Psychopathology, King’s College London and Hon. Consultant Clinical Psychologist,& Associate Director, Clinical Governance, South London & Maudsley NHS Trust) Defining the Disorder in Mental Disorder
	Prof. Jane Heal (Professor in Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge) The value(s) of ‘Autonomy’ and Their Implications for Mental Disorder
	Dr Lisa Bortolotti (Senior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Birmingham) Rationality and Self-Knowledge in Delusions and Confabulations
12.30 - 14.00	Lunch
14.00 - 16.30	Session 4: Boundaries of Autonomy Chair: Ulrich Müller (University Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge and Hon. Consultant Psychiatrist, Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust)
	Prof. Agnieszka Jaworska (Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of California Riverside) Caring and Autonomy: Self-Government without Evaluation or Motivational Hierarchy
	Dr Hallvard Lillehammer (Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge) Autonomy, Value, and the First Person
	Dr Elizabeth Fistein (Cambridge Intellectual & Development Disabilities Research Group, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge) Constructing ‘Best Interests’: How Conceptions of the Good Shift the Boundaries of Autonomy
16.30 - 17.30	General discussion and closing remarks