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Matthew Broome is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Warwick and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. He is Consultant Psychiatrist in Early Intervention to the Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust and Chair of the Philosophy Special Interest Group at the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Together with colleagues from the Maudsley Philosophy Group, he co-edited The Maudsley Reader in Phenomenological Psychiatry (Cambridge University Press, 2012), and together with Lisa Bortolotti, co-edited Psychiatry as Cognitive Neuroscience: Philosophical Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2009). His research interests include the prodromal phase of psychosis, delusion formation, functional magnetic resonance imaging, and early intervention in mental illness, as well as philosophy of psychiatry. He can be contacted via email at m.r.broome@warwick.ac.uk
Peter Fifield is a Junior Research Fellow at St John’s College, University of Oxford, where he is working on Samuel Beckett and ideas of the anti-literary. He has a strong interest in the interaction of literary modernism and neuroscience and has written on amnesia for the volume Beckett and Death (Continuum, 2009) and Cotard’s syndrome for Journal of Beckett Studies (17.1-2, 2008). He can be contacted via email at peter.fifield@sjc.ox.ac.uk
Shaun Gallagher is the Lillian and Morrie Moss Professor of Excellence in Philosophy at the University of Memphis. He has a secondary appointment at the University of Hertfordshire (UK) and is Honorary Professor of Philosophy at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark). He has held visiting positions at the Cognition and Brain Science MRC Unit at the University of Cambridge, the Ecole Normale Supériure in Lyon, and the Centre de Recherche en Epistémologie Appliquée (CREA), Paris. He is currently a Humboldt Foundation Anneliese Maier Research Fellow (2012–17). He’s editor-in-chief of the journal Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. He can be contacted via email at s.gallagher@memphis.edu
Philip Gerrans is Reader in the Philosophy Department at the University of Adelaide. His main research interest is the use of psychological disorder to study the mind. In particular developmental disorders (autism and Williams syndrome), cognitive neuropsychiatry, and, more recently, moral psychopathologies (such as psychopathy) and the emotions. He can be contacted via email at philp.gerrans@adelaide.edu.au
Richard Gipps is a philosopher and clinical psychologist with a special interest in the phenomenology of psychosis. A recent publication in PPP is: Rhodes, J. and R. G. T. Gipps, 2008, Delusions, certainty and the background, Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology 15, no. 4, 295–310. [End Page 153] He currently works in clinical practice in Oxford, UK, and maintains the website www.inpponline.org for the International Network for Philosophy and Psychiatry. He can be contacted via email at r.gipps@inppoline.org
Mike Gorski worked as a psychiatric nurse, taking early retirement in 1998. He completed an MSc in Philosophy and Mental Disorder at King’s College London in 2000, then studied part time for a PhD in philosophy, also at King’s (awarded 2008). His main interest is in the history of methodology, particularly in psychiatry. He can be contacted via email at mikegorski52@gmail.com
Giovanni Stanghellini, MD and MD Honoris Causa, psychiatrist, is Professor of Dynamic Psychology and Psychopathology at Chieti University (Italy). He has written extensively on the philosophical foundations of psychopathology, especially from a phenomenological and anthropological viewpoint. He is co-editor of the Series International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry, and associate editor of the journal Psychopathology. He has founded (with K.W.M. Fulford and J.Z. Sadler) the International Network for Philosophy and Psychiatry. He chairs the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) Section on the Humanities, and the Association of European Psychiatrists (EPA) Section on Philosophy and Psychiatry. He can be contacted via email at giostan@libero.it
Somogy Varga has worked at the Institute of Social Research in Frankfurt am Main and completed his PhD in philosophy at the Johann W. Goethe University of Frankfurt. He is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Osnabrück and a visiting researcher at the Center for Subjectivity Research in Copenhagen. He is the...
