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'''The Nature of Psychiatric Disease and Its Classification''' | '''The Nature of Psychiatric Disease and Its Classification''' | ||
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| + | '''This meeting has been postponed. Further details will follow in due course. Interested persons should write to Robert Arp (rarp@buffalo.edu)''' | ||
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| + | Monday, September 8, 2008 (8:30am - 6:00pm) | ||
A conference to be held at the Zebro Conference Hall located in the [http://www.roswellpark.org/Research/Genetics_and_Pharmacology Roswell Park Cancer Institute Center for Genetics and Pharmacology] (Buffalo, New York). | A conference to be held at the Zebro Conference Hall located in the [http://www.roswellpark.org/Research/Genetics_and_Pharmacology Roswell Park Cancer Institute Center for Genetics and Pharmacology] (Buffalo, New York). | ||
| − | Sponsored by the [http://org.buffalo.edu/ Ontology Research Group]. | + | Sponsored by the [http://org.buffalo.edu/ Ontology Research Group] of the University at Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences. |
| − | + | The conference will facilitate scholarly exchange and development concerning the nature and classification of psychiatric diseases, as well as their appropriate computational rendering and storage, especially in light of continual revisions to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the authoritative text in the psychiatric domain. | |
| − | + | Provisional list of speakers with tentative titles: | |
| − | *[http:// | + | *[http://www.hss.caltech.edu/people/faculty/murphy Dominic P. Murphy], Senior Lecturer in the Unit for History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney. |
| + | Presentation: "The Categorical and Dimensional Models of Mental Disease" | ||
| − | *[http:// | + | *[http://media.cla.auburn.edu/psychology2/directory/directory/display_faculty.cfm?contactID=237 Roger K. Blashfield], Professor of Psychology and Clinic Director at Auburn University. |
| + | Presentation: "The Myths and Methodology of the DSM" | ||
| − | *[http://www. | + | *[http://www.org.buffalo.edu/RTU/ceusters_vita.html Werner Ceusters], Ontology Research Group, [http://www.org.buffalo.edu/RTU/ (Referent Tracking Unit)] at the [http://www.bioinformatics.buffalo.edu/ New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics & Life Sciences] (CoE). |
| + | Presentation: "Referent Tracking and the Models of the Mental" | ||
| − | *[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/ Barry Smith], Ontology Research Group, [http://org.buffalo.edu/OLTresearchers.html (Ontology, Logic and Technology Unit)] at the CoE | + | *[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/ Barry Smith], Ontology Research Group, [http://org.buffalo.edu/OLTresearchers.html (Ontology, Logic and Technology Unit)] at the CoE. |
| + | Presentation: "An Ontology of the Mental" | ||
| − | *[http://www. | + | *[http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~shapiro/ Stuart C. Shapiro] and [http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~jpbona/ Jonathan P. Bona], Department of Computer Science and Engineering, at the [http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/ University at Buffalo]. |
| + | Presentation: "Implementing an Ontology of the Mental by Computational Means" | ||
This page will be updated with relevant material for the conference. | This page will be updated with relevant material for the conference. | ||
Latest revision as of 11:39, 21 July 2008
The Nature of Psychiatric Disease and Its Classification
This meeting has been postponed. Further details will follow in due course. Interested persons should write to Robert Arp (rarp@buffalo.edu)
Monday, September 8, 2008 (8:30am - 6:00pm)
A conference to be held at the Zebro Conference Hall located in the Roswell Park Cancer Institute Center for Genetics and Pharmacology (Buffalo, New York).
Sponsored by the Ontology Research Group of the University at Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences.
The conference will facilitate scholarly exchange and development concerning the nature and classification of psychiatric diseases, as well as their appropriate computational rendering and storage, especially in light of continual revisions to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the authoritative text in the psychiatric domain.
Provisional list of speakers with tentative titles:
- Dominic P. Murphy, Senior Lecturer in the Unit for History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney.
Presentation: "The Categorical and Dimensional Models of Mental Disease"
- Roger K. Blashfield, Professor of Psychology and Clinic Director at Auburn University.
Presentation: "The Myths and Methodology of the DSM"
- Werner Ceusters, Ontology Research Group, (Referent Tracking Unit) at the New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics & Life Sciences (CoE).
Presentation: "Referent Tracking and the Models of the Mental"
- Barry Smith, Ontology Research Group, (Ontology, Logic and Technology Unit) at the CoE.
Presentation: "An Ontology of the Mental"
- Stuart C. Shapiro and Jonathan P. Bona, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, at the University at Buffalo.
Presentation: "Implementing an Ontology of the Mental by Computational Means"
This page will be updated with relevant material for the conference.