Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology

Brian David Earp is a bioethicist, philosopher, and interdisciplinary researcher. He is currently Associate Director of the Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and Health Policy at Yale University and The Hastings Center, and a Research Fellow at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. Earp has written (frequently in collaboration with others) on a wide range of topics, including free will, sex and gender, and the replication crisis in psychology. He currently writes the quarterly “Philosophy in the Real World” column for The Philosopher. In 2019, Earp wrote his first book (co-written with Julian Savulescu), published in the UK as Love Is the Drug: The Chemical Future of Our Relationships and in the United States as Love Drugs: The Chemical Future of Relationships.

Jasper Feyaerts is a psychologist at the Center for Contextual Psychiatry at KU Leuven.

Richard G. T. Gipps is a philosopher and clinical psychologist working as a psychotherapist with adults and students in Oxford, UK, where he is also an associate of the Faculty of Philosophy. Clinical and theoretical interests include the phenomenological understanding of psychosis, the nature of psychoanalytic explanation, the character of effective psychotherapy, the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, and the significance of loneliness. Together with Michael Lacewing he edited the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, and together with Sanneke de Haan has written on ‘Schizophrenic autism’ for the Oxford Handbook of Phenomenological Psychopathology, both published in 2019 by Oxford University Press.

Sanneke de Haan is a philosopher and works as a postdoctoral researcher at Tilburg University. Her main research interests are philosophy of psychiatry, phenomenological psychopathology, enactivism, and authenticity. She currently works on self-illness ambiguity and relational authenticity in psychiatry. Her book Enactive Psychiatry was published by CUP in 2020. Other recent publications include: Bio-psycho-social interaction: An enactive perspective (International Review of Psychiatry), and The need for relational authenticity strategies in psychiatry (Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology).

Emily Hughes has a PhD in philosophy from the University of New South Wales, a year of which was spent researching at the Martin-Heidegger-Institut in Wuppertal. Her thesis focused on Martin Heidegger’s concept of affect. Other areas of interest include phenomenology, existentialism, the philosophy of psychiatry, and the philosophy of time and temporality. She has taught at UNSW, and for the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy.

Sofia Jeppsson received her PhD from Stockholm University in 2012. Her research centers on moral responsibility, and concerns both more abstract questions (e.g., The Agential Perspective, Philosophical Studies 2020) and applied ones (e.g., Retributivism, Justification and Credence, forthcoming in Neuroethics). She is currently associate professor of philosophy at Umeå University.

Jeanette Kennett is Professor of Moral Psychology in the Department of Philosophy at Macquarie University. She works on moral cognition, moral motivation, moral and criminal responsibility, addiction, and mental disorder.

Kristopher Nielsen finished a BA in Philosophy and Psychology in 2014, and entered the Clinical Psyc and CBNS programs at VUW the following year. After completing his Master’s thesis, a TMS study looking at response inhibition and theories of executive function, Kris has deferred from the clinical program to complete his PhD. His work is focused around a school of thought known as 3e Cognition and how ideas from this area should be used to enrich our understandings of mental disorder.

Tehseen Noorani, PhD, is an interdisciplinary scholar based in Anthropology at Durham University, UK. His interests lie in the phenomenological, epistemic, and sociopolitical character of extreme experiences and how these are taken up in science and politics. Tehseen is currently completing a monograph tracing the renewed interest in psychedelic experiences in the global north, exploring implications for theories of psychopathology and approaches to mental healthcare. He has recently published on psychedelics in Neuroscience of Consciousness and Journal of Psychedelic Studies, as well as a Cultural Anthropology Hot Spots series on the ‘psychedelic revival.’

Ben Lewis, MD, Assistant Professor (Clinical), practices inpatient adult psychiatry at the University of Utah Huntsman Mental Health Institute, where his clinical interests involve the diagnosis and treatment of major psychiatric disorders. He has additional interests in medical ethics, the philosophy of psychiatry, and the emerging science and clinical applications of psychedelic medicine.

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