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  • About the Authors

Gary Gala is a former surgeon turned psychiatrist who is interested in the interface of philosophy and psychiatry. He did his undergraduate work in English Literature at Holy Cross College and took his medical degree from the Brown-Dartmouth program in medicine. He is a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry and a visiting scholar in philosophy at UNC Chapel Hill. He can be contacted via email at gary_gala@med.unc.edu

George Graham is widely published in philosophy of mind and on topics associated with mental disorder/illness. He is the author of The Disordered Mind (Routledge, 2013) and of The Abraham Dilemma: A Divine Delusion (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). He can be contacted via email at ggraham@gsu.edu

Mona Gupta is a consultation-liaison psychiatrist and researcher in bioethics at the University of Montreal and the Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal. She can be contacted via email at mona.gupta@utoronto.ca

Brent M. Kious received his PhD in Philosophy from UCLA in 2009 and his MD from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA in 2011. His philosophical research interests encompass the philosophy of psychiatry, medical ethics, and ethical theory. His research in psychiatry includes the prevention of post-traumatic stress disorder, outcomes of inpatient psychiatric care, and novel treatments for major depression. He has taught in the University of Utah Department of Philosophy, and is actively involved in the university’s Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities. He can be contacted via e-mail at brent.kious@hsc.utah.edu

Benjamin R. Lewis is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Utah. In addition to his clinical work as an inpatient adult psychiatrist, he also serves as the Associate Residency Program Director for the Adult Psychiatry Residency Program and is involved with medical ethics and medical student education. He can be contacted via e-mail at Ben.Lewis@hsc.utah.edu

Jorid Moen holds an MD and an MA in philosophy both from the University of Oslo. Her clinical practice includes child and adolescent psychiatry. She is a PhD fellow at IFIKK, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo, with research interests in the philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, medical ethics, psychiatry, and first-person perspective. She recently published Moen, J. (2014) Child and adolescent psychiatry between neuroscience and the family perspective: A pragmatist approach, in C. Perring and L.A. Wells (eds.) Diagnostic Dilemmas in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (Oxford University Press). She can be contacted via email at jorid.moen@ifikk.uio.no

Daniel Moseley is a Virginia-trained philosopher. He received a BA in Philosophy from Virginia Commonwealth University and earned his MA and PhD in Philosophy from the University of Virginia. His dissertation was entitled The Virtues of Integrity. Moseley was a Visiting Assistant Professor in [End Page 75] the Department of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in Bioethics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He can be contacted via email at daniel.moseley@unc.edu

Christian Perring earned his PhD in Philosophy from Princeton University and is Chair and Professor of Philosophy at Dowling College, New York. He is co-editor (with Lloyd Wells) of Diagnostic Dilemmas in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Philosophical Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2014). His areas of research are in the categorization of mental disorder, explanatory models of mental disorder, agency and moral responsibility, and the metaphysics of personhood. He is editor of Metapsychology Online Reviews. He can be contacted via email at cperring@yahoo.com

Jesse S. Summers is currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Kenan Institute for Ethics, a Lecturing Fellow in the Thompson Writing Program, and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Duke University. He may be contacted via email at j.s.summers@gmail.com

Peter Zachar is a professor of psychology at Auburn University Montgomery. He is the author of Psychological Concepts and Biological Psychiatry (John Benjamins, 2000) and A Metaphysics of Psychopathology (MIT Press, 2014...

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