A Meeting with Prof. Michael Boylan

The Dean of the Faculty and the head of the Department of Ethics prof. Paweł Łuków invites to a meeting with prof. Michael Boylan from the University of Chicago who will give a lecture “Health as Self-Fulfillment”. It will be held in the Maria Ossowska Hall (116) on September 21 at 5 p.m.

Prof. Boylan is an American philosopher, poet and novelist, the author of 31 books and over 130 scientific and popular science articles. His research interests include ethics, social and political philosophy, the relationship between literature and philosophy, and the history and philosophy of biology and medicine.

More about our Guest: Michael Boylan

The abstract of his talk:

Over the last four decades there has been a debate over objective understandings of health and subjective ones. This talk will argue that both approaches are right and wrong depending upon the narrow focus of what is the intended explanans for a given explanandum. This talk will then argue that an understanding of health from the vantage point of well-being understood within the confines of self-fulfillment is most important to the agent.