Agency in Mental Disorder
Philosophical Dimensions
Edited by Matt King and Joshua May
Author Information
Edited by Matt King, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Joshua May, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Matt King is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland and has held previous appointments at Carleton College, Virginia Tech, and UCLA. His main research is on theories of agency and responsibility, as well as related topics in ethics and the law. His work has appeared in Ethics, Philosophical Studies, Criminal Law and Philosophy, and Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility.
Joshua May is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He previously taught at Monash University in Australia after receiving his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research aims to understand the development, breakdown, and improvement of moral knowledge and virtue. His book Regard for Reason in the Moral Mind (OUP 2018) draws on scientific evidence to show that ethical thought and action are fundamentally rational enterprises. Articles of his have appeared in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Behavioral & Brain Sciences, Cognition, Journal of Medical Ethics, Neuroethics, Philosophical Studies, and Synthese.
Contributors:
Nomy Arpaly is Professor of Philosophy at Brown University.
Justin Clarke-Doane is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University.
Anneli Jefferson is Lecturer in Philosophy at Cardiff University.
David Shoemaker is Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University.
Katrina L. Sifferd is Professor of Philosophy at Elmhurst University.
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong is the Chauncey Stillman Professor of Practical Ethics in the Department of Philosophy and the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University.
Chandra Sripada is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Philosophy at the University of Michigan.
Jesse S. Summers is Assistant Academic Dean, Trinity College of Arts and Sciences; a Fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics; and an adjunct assistant professor of Philosophy at Duke University.
Kathryn Tabb is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Bard College.
Robyn Repko Waller is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Iona College.