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  • About the Authors

Brandon Day is a current 4th-year undergraduate at the University of Arizona with three concurrent majors in psychology, philosophy, and French. His primary interests include understanding the relationships between the fields of psychology and philosophy, psychological treatment outcome research, and the ways in which meditation/yoga practices can be used as conjuncts in therapy. In his free time, Brandon is an avid reader of fiction and French works, a practicing yogi and meditator, a research assistant in Dr. Bootzin’s sleep research lab, and Dr. Jacob’s anxiety research lab, and a traveler. He can be contacted via email at brik220@email.arizona.edu

C. Robert Cloninger is Wallace Renard Professor of Psychiatry, Professor of Psychology and Genetics, and Director of the Sansone Family Center for Well-Being at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. He is also Scientific Director of the Anthropedia Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to development of human well-being through initiatives in health care and education. He is widely cited and honored for his innovative biopsychosocial research that spans the genetics, neurobiology, development, psychology, brain imaging, and assessment of personality and psychopathology. His personality inventories have been used in more than 4,000 peer-reviewed publications around the world. He can be contacted via email at clon@WUSTL.EDU

Peter K. Machamer is Professor (Adj. Philosophy, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, The Cognitive Program in Psychology, Rhetoric of Science Program), and Research Associate (Learning Research and Development Center). His latest best seller is co-authored with I.E. McGuire, Descartes’s Changing Mind, Princeton University Press 2009. He has written many articles on topics in the history and philosophy of science. He works primarily on 16th- and 17th-century topics, especially Galileo, Descartes, and Hobbes, and on the philosophy of cognitive psychology and neuroscience, and social science, and on values and science. He also did empirical work in cognitive psychology. He can be contacted via e-mail at pkmach@pitt.edu

Eric Matthews is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Honorary Research Professor of Medical and Psychiatric Ethics in the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He has spoken at many international conferences on the philosophy of psychiatry, and has published widely in the field, and in philosophy more generally. His book Body-Subjects and Disordered Minds (Oxford, 2007), and a forthcoming paper, “Mental Disorder: Can Merleau-Ponty take us beyond the ‘mind-brain’ problem?”, in the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry, to be published by Oxford University Press in 2013, deal with themes related to those discussed in this article. He can be contacted via e-mail at e.matthews@abdn.ac.uk

James Philips is a psychiatrist in private practice and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry in the Yale School of Medicine. He has published [End Page 285] widely in the area of philosophy and psychiatry. A current publication is Making the DSM-5: Concepts and Controversies, Springer Press, 2013, coedited with Joel Paris, MD. He can be contacted via e-mail at james.phillips@yale.edu

Nancy Nyquist Potter is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Louisville, where she teaches ethical theory, Aristotle, and other foundational courses as well as philosophy and mental illness, and race, gender, and mental illness. She is also core faculty in the Interdisciplinary Masters Program in Bioethics and Medical Humanities. Her most recent book is on borderline personality disorder (Mapping the Edges and the In-Between: A Critical Analysis of Borderline Personality Disorder; Oxford University Press 2009) and she is now publishing work on defiance and conduct disorder. She serves on a local hospital ethics committee as well as an ethics council that oversees the policies and practices of several hospitals, and she participates as part of the health care team in Emergency Psychiatric Services. She is past president of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry. She can be contacted via e-mail at Nancy.potter@louisville.edu

Marga Reimer is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Although she has a longstanding interest in the philosophy of language, she has recently become immersed in a variety of issues in the philosophy of...

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