Хибриден семинар по Философия на медицината

декември 9, 2025

Секция „Философия на науката“, ИФС-БАН, организира семинар по Философия на медицината с участието на д-р Е. Компаридис с тема на доклад „Philosophy of Medicine in the Era of Digitalization, AI, and Neurotechnologies“ и д-р Н. Пировски с тема на доклад „Anatomy as a Science: Evolution, Significance, and Role in Modern Medicine“. Официален език на събитието е английски език. Формата на провеждане е хибридна. Семинарът ще се проведе на 10 декември 2025г. от 10:30 часа в Института по философия и социология при БАН (гр. София, бул. Патриарх Евтимий 6). Не е необходима предварителна регистрация за тези, които желаят да присъстват на място, но е необходима регистрация за тези, които желаят да получат Zoom линк за събитието, като изпратят заявка от тук: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeoPptwXV8VNPkxbeipCvbejhu8cHDrdxBs_eYkGmHhQ4ym1g/viewform?pli=1

Dr. Evangelos Koumparoudis

Philosophy of Medicine in the Era of Digitalization, AI, and Neurotechnologies

Abstract: Medicine is under a profound reshaping of its core assumptions and concepts. Digitalization, AI, Big Data from EHRs, wearables, and omic technologies, as well as advances in neurotechnologies, are the basic pillars of this transformation. This talk aims to provide a framework deeply rooted in the philosophy of medicine, one that follows these changes. Medical platforms and Telemedicine challenge the therapeutic process, as well as transform the doctor-patient relationship, creating gaps in communication and shifting roles between doctors, patients, and AI. AI-driven analytics applied to large-scale datasets generate new, often opaque forms of medical „knowledge“ that question traditional epistemic standards and clinical judgment, driving the expansion of personalized and precision medicine. Furthermore, the traditional definitions of health and disease are under consideration, since the attention is shifting to continuous risk surveillance and tracking, broadening the boundaries of medicalization. Simultaneously, advances in neurotechnologies such as brain-computer interfaces, implantable brain chips, and other forms of neuroenhancement further complicate notions of autonomy, agency, and the ethical limits of medical intervention, while redefining the meaning of diagnosis and treatment to a status of augmenting human capacities. To summarize, the philosophy of medicine should move forward to cope with all those emerging challenges and be ready for this structural transformation of medicine.

Dr. Nikola Pirovski

Anatomy as a Science: Evolution, Significance, and Role in Modern Medicine

Abstract: Science is the result of the scientific method and thus has many disciplines. Anatomical science functions as a scientific theory whose structure can be interpreted through the lens of the philosophical debates on theory structure — whether via the syntactic view with formalized anatomical definitions and observational sentences, via the semantic view with model-theoretic representations of anatomical structures, or via a pragmatic perspective that emphasizes application, clinical practice, and functional interpretation. Anatomy’s significance lies in offering reliable models of human morphology and function, enabling accurate diagnoses, surgical interventions, and biomedical research. Its role in modern medicine is foundational, as anatomy provides the conceptual and empirical scaffold for pathology, radiology, surgery, and functional physiology. Thus, anatomy is not only a descriptive catalogue of form but a dynamic theoretical and practical framework central to medical science.