Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors

Vincent Bergeron is currently finishing his PhD in philosophy at the University of British Columbia. He works on the philosophy of cognitive science and aesthetics. His doctoral dissertation, which he is writing under the supervision of Mohan Matthen, is on cognitive architecture. He has an article on a new approach to the modularity of mind, which has just appeared in Philosophical Psychology, and one on the ontology of music (written in collaboration with Dominic Lopes), which will soon appear in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.

Robyn Bluhm received her doctorate in philosophy from the University of Western Ontario. She is now a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at Western, where her research focuses on using functional magnetic resonance imaging to examine alterations in the "default" network in psychiatric disorders. This research also informs her philosophical work on the epistemology of medicine and psychiatry.

Louis C. Charland is a philosopher who specializes in the study of affect and emotion and the history and philosophy of psychiatry. He is currently associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario, in London, Canada, where he also has appointments in the Faculty of Health Sciences and the Department of Psychiatry in the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry. Previous appointments include various teaching, research, and policy positions at McGill University's Faculty of Medicine, the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children, and the Ontario Premier's Council on Health Strategy. Current research includes work on decisional capacity and anorexia and a book on the role of the passions in nineteenth-century moral treatment during the formative decades of modern psychiatry.

Ronald de Sousa is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He was educated in Switzerland, Oxford, and Princeton. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author of The Rationality of Emotion (MIT 1987) and Évolution et rationalité (PUF 2004), of which Why Think?: Evolution and the Rational Mind (OUP 2007) is an improved English version. He has published over a hundred articles, chapters, or reviews in a variety of periodicals and books. His current research interests focus on emotions, evolutionary theory, cognitive science, sex, and the puzzle of religious belief. His next book, also from OUP, will be Emotional Truth.

Paul Dumouchel is professor at the Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences of Ritsumeikan University, in Kyoto, Japan, where he teaches political philosophy. He is author of Émotions: essai sur le corps et le social as well as several articles on trust, moral sentiments, the strategic role and the biological dimension of emotions. He is presently working on a book on political violence and co-editing (with Reiko Gotoh) a collection on Amartya Sen and social justice, which is due to appear at Cambridge University Press.

Luc Faucher is an associate professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal. He published many papers on emotions, racial cognition and evolutionary psychology. Recently (2006), he has edited a volume of Philosophiques on philosophy and psychopathologies. He is also editing (with Pierre Poirier) a book on the philosophy of neuroscience.

Anne Jaap Jacobson is professor of philosophy and electrical and computer engineering at the University of Houston, where she is director of the Center for Neuro-Engineering and Cognitive Science. While her most recent research focuses on cognitive neuroscience and its implications for an externalist theory of the mind, she also works in feminist philosophy and in the history of philosophy.

Karen Jones is senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Melbourne. She has written extensively on trust in both its epistemic and ethical dimensions. Her recent work focuses on emotion, rationality, and agency. Her work has appeared in Ethics, the Journal of Philosophy, and in the collections Setting the Moral Compass: Essays by Women Philosophers and A Mind of One's Own. Much of her work is from a feminist perspective.

Mohan Matthen is Canada Research Chair in Philosophy, Perception...