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Dr R. J. R. Blair received a doctoral degree in Psychology from University College London in 1993 under the supervision of Professor John Morton. After graduation, he was awarded a Wellcome Trust Mental Health Research Fellowship that he held at the Medical Research Council's Cognitive Development Unit for three years. Subsequently, he moved to the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London. There, with Uta Frith, he helped form and co-lead the Developmental Disorders group, and was ultimately appointed Senior Lecturer. He joined the National Institutes of Mental Health Intramural Research Program in 2002 as chief of the new Unit of Affective Cognitive Neuroscience. He can be contacted via e-mail at JamesBlair@mail.nih.gov.
Bengt Brülde currently works as an Assistant Professor of Practical Philosophy at Göteborg University, Sweden, and as an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Trollhättan/Uddevalla, Sweden. The areas of research on which Brülde has focused are (apart from the philosophy of psychiatry) quality of life, happiness, the concepts of health and disorder, and bioethics. He can be contacted via e-mail at filbb@hum.gu.se.
Neil Levy is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne, and James Martin Research Fellow in the Program on Ethics and the New Biosciences, Oxford University. He specializes in applied ethics, especially neuroethics, free will, and moral responsibility. He is the author more than seventy papers in refereed journals, as well as five books, including, most recently, Neuroethics (Cambridge University Press, 2007). He can be contacted via e-mail at neil.levy@philosophy. ox.ac.uk.
Matt Matravers is Professor of Political Philosophy and Head of the Department of Politics at the University of York. His main interest is in issues of responsibility on the boundary of distributive and retributive justice. In addition to papers on that subject, he is the author of Justice and Punishment (OUP, 2000) and Responsibility and Justice (Polity, 2007). He can be contacted via e-mail at mdm3@york.ac.uk.
Paul E. Mullen is a Clinician and Researcher. He is the author of books on stalking, child sexual abuse, and jealousy, and papers on mental disorder and offending and querulous complainants. He can be contacted via e-mail at paul.mullen@ forensicare.vic.gov.au.
Shaun Nichols is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. His recent research concerns experimental philosophy, cultural evolution, free will, and cognitive theories of the imagination. He is the author of Sentimental Rules: On the Natural Foundations of Moral Judgments (Oxford, 2004) and (with Stephen Stich) Mindreading (Oxford, 2003). He can be contacted via e-mail at sbn@ email.arizona.edu. [End Page 171]
Patricia A. Ross is a Research Associate at the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Minnesota. She is also currently doing research on health services in the School of Public Health. Her philosophical background is in philosophy of science, and she has a particular interested in philosophy of psychology and psychiatry. She is writing a book on the concept of mental disorder. She can be contacted via e-mail at rossx035@umn.edu.
Stephen Tyreman graduated as an Osteopath in 1974. Involved in osteopathic education since 1978, he is currently Dean of Undergraduate Studies and Course Leader for the Bachelor of Osteopathy Degree program in London. Also in practice in Lincoln, he became involved in philosophy of Health Care in the mid-1990s and completed a PhD looking at concepts of function in 2001. He can be contacted via e-mail at s.tyreman@bso.ac.uk.
Manuel Vargas is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco. His research interests include moral psychology, moral responsibility, evil, and topics in Latin American philosophy. He is author (with John Fischer, Robert Kane, and Derk Pereboom) of Four Views on Free Will (Blackwell, 2007). He can be contacted via e-mail at mrvargas@usfca.edu. [End Page 172]
