Duck/Rabbit Lectures #2

Wednesday, February 11, 20.30h, entrance € 5
Common/battle ground for science and philosophy

Duck/Rabbit Lectures are a series of monthly lectures on philosophy and science. Each month two researchers tackle a subject departing from their own field of study, as we witness how the two disciplines clash/ooze into each other.

*Subject matter*
In this edition of the Duck/Rabbit lectures, a philosopher and a psychiatrist discuss the meaning of our concept of mental illness. When can we consider something to be a disorder? At what point do we judge people who fanatically believe in conspiracies (for example about Charlie Hebdo) to be mentally ill? And if we do, should we consider this mental illness to be a brain disease or a disorder of the whole self?

For more info on the subject, see this article by Sanneke de Haan on conspiricy thinking.

*Philosopher*
Sanneke de Haan is currently working as a PhD researcher at the Department of Psychiatry of the Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam. She has a background in in philosophy and existential humanistic counselling. Sanneke is investigating the effects of Deep Brain Stimulation on OCD-patients from a phenomenological point of view.

*Scientist*
Jan Swinkels works as a psychiatrist in the Academisch Medisch Centrum (AMC) Amsterdam, where he started his career in 1982. In 2002, he became professor by special appointment on the development of guidelines in health care, a chair created by the Trimbos Institute and the AMC and associated with the University of Amsterdam. As a psychiatrist, Jan Swinkels is specialized in the treatment of depression.

*Food*
Afghan food from Mazadar a la carte, or a meal and a ticket for the lecture for € 12.