Events
Interdisciplinary Panel: Philosophical Perspectives on Mental Illness and Mental Health
Date and Time
Friday, March 29, 2024 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Location
BLL-110 Mackinac Hall
Description
Mental illness is receiving more popular and professional attention than ever. Yet beyond an intuitive grasp of what it means to be ‘mentally ill’ or ‘mentally healthy,’ these concepts and their roles in our lives remain vague. This panel—made up of Gwenden Dueker (Psychology), Larry Burns (Psychology), William Parkhurst (Philosophy), and Alycia LaGuardia-LoBianco (Philosophy)—will explore the philosophical implications of mental illness and mental health: what does it mean to have a mental illness? How do we distinguish behavior that is merely abnormal from that which is unhealthy? How do these definitions differ across cultures and time? What does mental health look like? Is mental illness a disability or a difference? Should we understand mental illness as an individual problem or is it a symptom of a systemic issue, some evidence of a sickness of our societies? Join us for an interdisciplinary panel on these and other philosophical questions!
This event also appears on the main events calendar tagged as clas, colloquia, lecture, philosophy, and psychology.