About the Authors
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Simon Beck is Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Western Cape. His central research interests are in problems in the broad area of personal identity, both substantial and methodological. Amongst his recent publications in this area are ‘These Bizarre Fictions: Thought-Experiments, Our Psychology and Our Selves’, Philosophical Papers 35, no.1 (2006) and ‘Causal Co-Personality: In Defence of the Psychological Continuity Theory’, South African Journal of Philosophy 30, no.2 (2011). He can be contacted via email at sbeck@uwc.ac.za
S. Nassir Ghaemi is a psychiatric researcher with expertise in bipolar disorder, and training in philosophy and public health. His research has focused on clinical psychopharmacology of treatments for depression and bipolar disorder, including clinical trials of antidepressants and antipsychotic agents. He has also studied the psychopathology and nosology of mood illnesses, including the concept of the bipolar spectrum. He has also published over 150 scientific articles or book chapters, and serves on the editorial board of numerous journals, including Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, Bipolar Disorders, and the Journal of Affective Disorders. He also serves on the executive committee of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry; is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association; and has served as chairman of the Diagnostic Guidelines Task Force of the International Society for Bipolar Disorders (2005–2008). He can be contacted via email at NGhaemi@tufts-nemc.org
Grant Gillett is a qualified neurosurgeon and practiced until 2006. He is now a Professor of Medical Ethics at the Bioethics Centre of the Medical School, and a fellow of the Royal society. He is author of The Mind and its Discontents (2009), Subjectivity and Being Somebody: Human Identity and Neuroethics. (2008), Bioethics in the Clinic: Hippocratic Reflections (2004), and nearly 300 articles in philosophy, bioethics, the philosophy of psychiatry and neuroscience. He can be contacted via email at grant.gillett@otago.ac.nz
Jennifer Hansen earned her MA in Philosophy from Boston College, and her PhD in Philosophy from SUNY at Stony Brook. She is a Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at St. Lawrence University. With Ann J. Cahill, she is the coeditor of Continental Feminism Reader (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003), French Feminists (Routledge, 2008), as well as the author of numerous articles and book chapters including recently, “Is Prozac a Feminist Drug?” (International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics) and “What’s So Great About Nature?” (Journal of Speculative Philosophy). She can be contacted via email at jhansen@stlawu.edu
Drew Leder is the author of many articles and books on the phenomenology of the body, and the philosophy of medicine, including The Absent [End Page 103] Body, (University of Chicago Press), as well as popular/scholarly works on cross-cultural spirituality (“Sparks of the Divine”, “Games for the Soul,”) aging (“Spiritual Passages”), and imprisonment (“The Soul Knows No Bars”). He can be contacted via email at dleder@loyola.edu
David Lumsden studied philosophy at the University of London and Princeton University, from where he received his doctorate. He has taught for many years at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. His main research areas are the Philosophy of Language and the Philosophy of Mind. The journals he has published in include: Philosophical Studies, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Journal of Pragmatics, Erkenntnis and Philosophical Psychology. He can be contacted via email at d.lumsden@waikato.ac.nz
Katherine J. Morris has been a fellow in philosophy at Mansfield College, Oxford University, UK for many years; she also lectures on Anthropology of the Body and Gender for medical anthropologists and teaches a course on Women and their Bodies for women〉s studies students. Her recent books include Sartre (Blackwell 2008), Starting with Merleau-Ponty (Continuum 2012), and (as editor) Sartre on the Body (Palgrave MacMillan 2010). Relevant articles include “Body Image Disorders”, forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry, ed. K.W.M. Fulford et al. She also co-edits the series International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry for Oxford University Press. She can be contact via email at katherine.morris@philosophy.ox.ac.uk
James Phillips is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine...
