About the Authors
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Jeffrey Bedrick did graduate work in philosophy at The University of Chicago and then completed medical school at the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has done research in substance use disorders and personality disorders, and his current research focuses on topics in the philosophy of psychiatry. He can be contacted via e-mail at jbedrick@drexelmed.edu.
Philip Cowen is a clinical psychiatrist and Professor of Psychopharmacology in the University of Oxford. His particular interest is in the psychopharmacology of depression and the neuro-psychological effects of antidepressant drugs. He is an author of the Shorter Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry. He can be contacted via email at phil. cowen@psych.ox.ac.uk.
Jillian Craigie is a Lecturer in Medical Ethics at the Centre of Medical Law and Ethics, Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London. Coming from a background in neuroscience and philosophical moral psychology she currently works primarily in the area of mental health ethics and law. She can be contacted via email at jillian. craigie@kcl.ac.uk.
Molly Crockett is currently a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London, and the Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research, University of Zurich. She completed her PhD in Experimental Psychology at the University of Cambridge. Dr. Crockett investigates the neurobiology of altruism, morality, and economic decision making. Her research combines behavioral modeling, pharmacology, and brain imaging. She can be contacted via email at mollycrockett@gmail.com.
Thomas Douglas is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, and a Junior Research Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford. He qualified as a medical doctor at the University of Otago, New Zealand, in 2003 and completed a DPhil in Philosophy at the University of Oxford in 2010. Douglas’ research lies primarily in applied and normative ethics. He is currently working on the ethics of creating dangerous knowledge and of modifying moral dispositions. Previously, he has written on biomedical enhancement, organ donation policy, reproductive decision making, slippery slope arguments, and compensatory justice. He can be contacted via email at thomas.douglas@philosophy.ox.ac.uk.
Miles Hewstone is Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of New College and the British Academy. He has published widely in the field of experimental social psychology, focusing on prejudice and stereotyping, intergroup contact, the reduction of intergroup conflict, sectarianism in Northern Ireland, and segregation and integration. One current focus [End Page 169] is the effect of ethnoreligious diversity in neighborhoods and schools on intergroup attitudes, and the mediating role of intergroup contact. He has presented his work to a number of public policy bodies and reviews. He can be contacted via email at miles.hewstone@psy.ox.ac.uk.
Kerrin A. Jacobs is a lecturer at the Department of Philosophy at the Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Germany. Before she has been a postdoctoral research fellow in the project animal emotionale II – existential feelings, psychopathology, and the range of evolutionary explanations conducted at the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Osnabrück, Germany, and a principal research associate in the project Emotional Experience in Depression – a philosophical study funded by both the German DFG and the British AHRC. She works on conceptual issues in psychopathology in general, with the aim to unite phenomenological and analytical perspectives on mental disorders. She can be contacted via e-mail at kerrin.jacobs@uos.de.
Guy Kahane is Deputy Director of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and of the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics, both at the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford University, and a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. Kahane’s research ranges from meta-ethics and value theory to applied ethics and moral psychology. He can be contacted via email at guy.kahane@philosophy.ox.ac.uk.
Neil Levy is Head of Neuroethics at the Florey Institute...
