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Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology 7.1 (2000) 95-96



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K. W. M. (Bill) Fulford is Professor of Philosophy and Mental Health in the Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick, where he runs a graduate program in Philosophy, Ethics, and Mental Health Practice. He is Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford. He holds Visiting Professorships at the Institute of Psychiatry and King's College (University of London), at the Kent Institute for Medical Research (University of Kent), and the Centre for Professional Ethics (University of Central Lancashire). Professor Fulford is a fellow of both the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Royal College of Physicians (London), and the founder chair of the Philosophy Special Interest Group in the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He publishes on the conceptual foundation of psychiatry: see in particular his Moral Theory and Medical Practice (Cambridge 1989; 2d ed. forthcoming). Email: pysak@titanic.warwick.ac.uk.

Christopher Megone studied at Oxford University and now teaches medical ethics, ethics, and ancient philosophy (Plato and Aristotle) in the School of Philosophy, University of Leeds, where he is Senior Lecturer. He is the European representative on the board of the Society for Bioethics and Classical Philosophy, and he is currently working on Aristotle's function argument and the purpose of the study of ethics. His recent and imminent articles include "Reasoning about Rationality," Utilitas 11.3 (1999) and "Persons and Potentiality: An Aristotelian Approach," in Bioethics and Classical Philosophy, ed. Mark Kuczewski and Ronald Polansky (MIT Press, forthcoming 2000).

Thomas Szasz, M.D., D.Sc. (Hon.), L.H.D. (Hon.), is Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at the State University of New York, Upstate Medical University, in Syracuse, New York. He is the author of twenty-five books, among them The Myth of Mental Illness (HarperCollins, 1961; rev. ed. 1974), Ceremonial Chemistry (Doubleday, 1974), and The Therapeutic State (Prometheus, 1984). His most recent work is Fatal Freedom: The Ethics and Politics of Suicide (Greenwood / Praeger, 1999).

Tim Thornton, M.A., M.Phil. Ph.D. (Cantab) is Lecturer in Philosophy and Manager of the Philosophy and Ethics of Mental Health Programme at the University of Warwick. Having come to philosophy through an interest in the philosophy of science, he now works on the philosophy of thought, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of psychiatry. His first book was Wittgenstein on Language and Thought (1998). He is currently writing a book tentatively titled "The Philosophy of John McDowell."

Jerome C. Wakefield is Professor in the School of Social Work, the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, and the Institute for Cognitive Studies, all at Rutgers University, and Lecturer in Psychiatry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University (email: jcw2@columbia.edu). He publishes on the conceptual foundations of psychiatry, social work, and psychoanalysis. The recent focus of his work has been on the concept of mental disorder and the validity of DSM diagnostic criteria. He is currently working on a book on Freud and the philosophy of mind.

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