Professor Bill Fulford, Fellow of St Catherine’s College and Member of the Philosophy Faculty, University of Oxford; Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Mental Health, University of Warwick Medical School; Director of the Collaborating Centre for Values-based Practice in Health and Social Care, University of Oxford.

Dr Hasanen Al-Taiar, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and Medical Education Fellow at Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford Chair

Dr Roxana Baiasu, Tutorial Fellow, Stanford University Centre in Oxford; Member of the Philosophy Faculty, University of Oxford

Mental health, like other areas of medicine, is set to benefit from dramatic advances in the biological and medical sciences – yet values (what matters or is important to those concerned) are key to the differentiation between pathological delusions and positive spiritual experiences. The discussion will explore, from both philosophical and medical perspectives, how values and science come together in mental health indicating, in particular, the role of cultural values in how delusions are experienced and hence how they impact on the lives of those concerned.