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<b>Tuesday, November 11th @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm</b></div>
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<span style="font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Join us in person in room 1117 on the 11th floor of the Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh. </span></h2>
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<span style="font-weight:700">Title: Neural Doctrines</span></div>
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<span style="font-size:14pt"><b>Annual Lecture Series – Jonathan Fuller -</b></span><span style="font-size:12pt"><b>
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<b>Friday, November 14th @ 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm EST</b></div>
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<span style="font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Join us in person in room 1008 on the 10th floor of the Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh. </span></h2>
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<span style="letter-spacing:0.5px;font-family:"Aptos Narrow",Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Much contemporary philosophy seeks to answer the question, what is disease? Yet, more so than ‘disease’
 attribution, diagnosis is one of the central concerns of medicine, and philosophers have only just begun to articulate and offer answers to problems of medical diagnosis that should be field-defining for the philosophy of medicine. What is diagnosis? And what
 is its purpose? Some have argued that diagnosis aims to causally explain the ills that bring people to medical attention, as an answer to a ‘why?’ question. I offer an instrumentalist alternative, in which diagnosis is an answer to a ‘what’s wrong?’ question
 that seeks to usefully classify medical conditions to achieve instrumental benefit. Understanding the nature and aim of diagnosis will allow us to clarify several concepts currently receiving much-deserved medical and societal attention such as diagnostic
 error, diagnostic excellence, and overdiagnosis.</span></p>
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