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Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology 10.2 (2003) 199-200



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Dr Gwen Adshead is a forensic psychiatrist and forensic psychotherapist. She also has an MA in medical law and ethics from Kings' College, London. She chairs the Royal College of Psychiatry Ethics Committee and has been involved in teaching ethical reasoning to trainees for 10 years. With Professor Jonathan Glover, she is working on a research project looking at moral reasoning in men with antisocial personality disorder. She can be reached at the Dadd Centre, Broadmoor Hospital, Crowthorne, Berks, RG45 7EG or via e-mail at Gwen.Adshead@wlmht.nhs.uk or gwen@adshead.org.

Piers Benn (PhD University of London, 1992) is Lecturer in Medical Ethics at Imperial College London. Previously he lectured in Philosophy at Leeds and St. Andrews Universities. He is particularly interested in philosophical issues in psychiatry, lies and deception in medicine, and issues at the beginning and end of life. More generally, his interests range widely within Applied Ethics, Metaethics, Philosophy of Religion and some aspects of Metaphysics. He is author of Ethics (UCL Press 1998 and Routledge 2003). He can be reached at the Medical Ethics Unit, Centre for Primary Care & Social Medicine, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, St. Dunstan's Road, London W6 8RP, United Kingdom or via e-mail at p.benn@imperial.ac.uk.

Stephen E. Braude is Chair and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. He has written extensively on the topic of dissociation, and he is the author of numerous articles and four books, including, First Person Plural: Multiple Personality and the Philosophy of Mind (Rowman & Littlefield, 1995), and Immortal Remains: The Evidence for Life After Death (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003). He can be reached at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, Philosophy Department, UMBC, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250 or via e-mail at braude@umbc.edu.

Christopher Ciocchetti received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Kentucky in 2000. Since then, he has been working on philosophical issues of responsibility related to punishment and assessing desert. His recent publications include "The attraction of historical entitlements" in the Journal of Value Inquiry, and "Wrongdoing and relationships" in Social Theory and Practice. He can be reached at the Department of Philosophy, Centenary College of Louisiana, Shreveport, LA 71134 or via e-mail at cciocche@centenary.edu.

Stephen R. L. Clark (MA, DPhil Oxford 1973) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Liverpool, with interests in Plotinus, philosophy of religions, and the treatment and understanding of animals. His most recent book is Biology and Christian Ethics (Cambridge 2000). He is currently working on Plotinus's use of metaphor. He can be reached at the Department of Philosophy, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX, United Kingdom or via e-mail at srlclark@liv.ac.uk. [End Page 199]

John M. Coetzee is a writer who lives in Adelaide, South Australia. He is the author of ten works of fiction, including Disgrace (1999). He can be reached at the Department of English, University of Adelaide, Adelaide SA 5000, Australia or via e-mail at john.coetzee@adelaide.edu.au.

Peter Q. Deeley is an Honorary Specialist Registrar in Psychiatry and Clinical Research Worker in the Section of Brain Maturation, Institute of Psychiatry, London. He is undertaking neuroimaging research on social cognition and emotion perception in Asperger syndrome and psychopathy, and on hypnotic phenomena. Prior to medical training he read Theology and Religious Studies at Clare College, Cambridge. Current theoretical work focuses on integrating anthropological and cognitive neuroscience perspectives to understand cultural constraints on cognition and behavior. Previous publications include, with John Bowker, "Is God a Virus?" in Bowker (1995) Is God a Virus? Genes, Culture and Religion, and "Medicine, psychiatry, and the ecology of mind" in Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology (6, no. 2:109-124, 1999). He can be reached at the Section of Brain Maturation, Institute of Psychiatry, London SE5 8AF or via e-mail at Q.Deeley@iop.kcl.ac.uk.

Stephen Matthews (PhD Monash University, 1997) is a research fellow with the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Center for...

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