About the Authors

Roger K. Blashfield, Ph.D., is Professor and Director of Clinical Training in the Department of Psychology at Auburn University. His research interests involve psychiatric classification, taxonomy, the sociology of science, and understanding how clinicians view patients. He was a member of the DSM-IV Workgroup for Personality Disorders.

Jan M. Broekman is Professor of Law at the University of Illinois; and Emeritus Professor at the universities of Leuven (Belgium) and Amsterdam (The Netherlands). He is also the Honorary President of the Dutch Foundation for Philosophy and Psychiatry. His commentary in this issue draws upon three of his books: Recht en Antropologie (Kluwer 1979); Intertwinements of Law and Medicine (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1996); and A Philosophy of European Union Law (Paris and Leuven: Peeters, 1999).

Elizabeth H. Flanagan, M.S., is a doctoral student in clinical psychology at Auburn University. Her research interests have focused on the classification of psychopathology and gender bias in diagnosis. Recently, she coauthored a chapter in Larry Beutler, ed., Alternatives to the DSM, in which she details how the DSM is like a folk taxonomy.

Paul J. Gibbs received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Cincinnati in 1994. Since then, he has published several articles in the area of philosophical psychology. He currently teaches at University School in Hunting Valley, Ohio, one of the premier preparatory high schools in the United States.

Daniel N. Robinson is Distinguished Research Professor and Professor of Psychology at Georgetown University and occasional lecturer in philosophy at the University of Oxford. He is past President of the Division of the History of Psychology and the Division of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology of the American Psychological Association. He is author of Wild Beasts and Idle Humours: The Insanity Defense from Antiquity to the Present (Harvard, 1996) and editor of The Mind: An Oxford Reader (Oxford University Press, 1998).

G. Lynn Stephens is Professor of Philosophy at University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). He co-edited Philosophical Psychopathology (MIT, 1994) and co-authored When Self-Consciousness Breaks: Alien Voices and Inserted Thoughts (MIT, 2000), both with George Graham.

Peter Zachar is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Auburn University Montgomery. His research interests include the philosophy of psychiatry, scientific categorization, evolution, and pragmatic models of justification.

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