Edited by Fabrice Jotterand, Senior Researcher, Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, and Edited by Veljko Dubljevic, Postdoctoral fellow, Neuroethics Research Unit, Institut de recherches cliniques de Montreal (IRCM)
Fabrice Jotterand, PhD, MA, is Associate Professor & Director of the Graduate Program in Bioethics at the Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA and Senior Researcher at the Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Switzerland. His scholarship and research interests focus on issues including moral enhancement, neurotechnologies and human identity, the use of neurotechnologies in psychiatry, medical professionalism, and moral and political philosophy.
Veljko Dubljevic, PhD, DPhil, is a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Neuroethics research unit at IRCM and McGill University in Montreal, and an associate member of the International Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities, University of Tübingen. He obtained a PhD in political science (University of Belgrade), and after studying bioethics, philosophy and neuroscience (University of Tübingen), he obtained a doctorate in philosophy (University of Stuttgart). His primary research focuses on ethics of neuroscience and technology, and neuroscience of ethics. He has over 30 publications in moral, legal and political philosophy and in neuroethics.
Robert H. Blank, PhD, is an adjunct Professor of Political Science at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. He has also been a frequent Guest Professor at Aarhus University in Denmark and a Research Scholar at the New College of Florida. His previous academic positions include Chair of Public Policy at Brunel University in West London and Professor and Associate Director of the Program for Biosocial Research at Northern Illinois University. He has lectured and written widely in the areas of comparative health policy, medical technology assessment and biomedical policy. Among the many books he has written or edited are Brain Policy (Georgetown University Press) and Intervention in the Brain: Politics and Policy (MIT Press).
Marc Jonathan Blitz, PhD, JD, is Alan Joseph Bennett Professor of Law Oklahoma City Univeristy School of Law. His scholarship focuses on constitutional protection for freedom of thought and freedom of expression, privacy, and national security law - and especially on how of each of these areas of law applies to emerging technologies. He has written articles on how privacy and First Amendment law should apply to public video surveillance, biometric identification methods, virtual reality technology and library Internet systems.
Hillel D. Braude, MBBCh, PhD, is Director of Research at the Mifne Center dedicated to the early intervention in the treatment of autism for the infant and family in Northern Israel. His neuroethics research focuses on neuro-phenomenology, cognition and moral reasoning. Besides numerous articles in the field he is the author of Intuition in Medicine: A Philosophical Defense of Clinical Reasoning (University of Chicago Press, 2012).
Jan Christoph Bublitz, PhD, LLB, is a lawyer and researcher at the University of Hamburg, working in Criminal and Human Rights law as well as philosophy of law. Contemporarily, his main interests lies in the legal regulation of the human mind. He has been part of several research projects concerning interventions into minds and has published a range of papers on legal issues of neuroscience. He is a co-editor of the new series Neuroscience, Law & Human Behavior at Palgrave-Macmillan and was awarded the Young Scholar Prize of the International Association of Legal and Social Philosophy (IVR) in 2013.
Jennifer Chandler, LL.M., LL.B., B.Sc., is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa, and holder of the Bertram Loeb Research Chair. She is a founding member of the University's Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics. Her research focuses on the law and ethics of emerging biomedical science and technology, with a particular interest in the brain sciences and in the law and ethics of organ and tissue donation and transplantation. She is a co-leader of the ethics and law research group within the Canadian National Transplant Research Program, an affiliate of the University of British Columbia's National Core for Neuroethics.
Lucy Diep is a Master Student in the Department of Community Health Science Stream of Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies at the University of Calgary. She engages with brain computer interfaces, social robotics and anticipatory governance through a disability studies and ability studies lens.
Adam Dodek, LSM, LLM, JD, is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, Canada. His research focuses on Public Law, Constitutional Law, the Supreme Court of Canada, the legal profession, the judiciary, legal ethics and judicial ethics. He has over 50 publications in these areas and is a frequent faculty member with the National Judicial Institute (Canada).
Veljko Dubljevic, PhD, DPhil, is a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Neuroethics research unit at IRCM and McGill University in Montreal, and an associate member of the International Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities, University of Tübingen. He obtained a PhD in political science (University of Belgrade), and after studying bioethics, philosophy and neuroscience (University of Tübingen), he obtained a doctorate in philosophy (University of Stuttgart). His primary research focuses on ethics of neuroscience and technology, and neuroscience of ethics. He has over 30 publications in moral, legal and political philosophy and in neuroethics.
Nadira Sophie Faber, PhD, MSc, is a Research Fellow in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford (United Kingdom). She is also a member of the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics. Dr Faber is a social psychologist and does interdisciplinary empirical research on human cooperation and on cognitive enhancement.
Cynthia Forlini, MA, PhD, is an ARC DECRA Research Fellow at The University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research in Brisbane (Australia). Her research explores the boundaries between enhancement and maintenance of cognitive performance. Her doctoral work (Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal and McGill University) examined ethical perspectives and public understanding of the non-medical use of stimulants by university students for cognitive enhancement. Funded by the Australian Research Council, her current work studies lay and academic attitudes toward caring for the ageing mind including the strategies older individuals (50 years +) use to keep mentally fit.
James Giordano, PhD, is Professor of Neurology; Chief of the Neuroethics Studies Program in the Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics, and Co-director of the O'Neill Institute-Pellegrino Program for Brain Science and Global Health Law and Policy at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C. His ongoing research focuses upon the use of advanced neurotechnologies to explore the neurobiology of pain and other neuropsychiatric spectrum disorders; the neuroscience of moral decision-making, and the neuroethical issues arising from the use of neuroscience and neurotechnology in research, clinical medicine, public life, international relations and policy, and national security and defense.
Wayne Hall, PhD, is a Professor and Director of the Centre for Youth Substance Abuse Research at the University of Queensland and a Professor of Addiction Policy at the National Addiction Centre, Kings College London. He has undertaken research on the social and ethical implications of genetic and neuroscience research on addiction.
Judy Illes, PhD, FRSC, FCAHS is Professor of Neurology and Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health at UBC and at the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute. Dr. Illes' research focuses on ethical, legal, social and policy challenges specifically at the intersection of the neurosciences and biomedical ethics. This includes studies in the areas of incidental findings and functional neuroimaging in basic and clinical research, neurodevelopmental disorders, addiction neuroethics, stem cells and regenerative medicine, dementia, and the commercialization of cognitive neuroscience. She also leads a robust program of research and outreach devoted to improving the literacy of neuroscience and engaging stakeholders on a global scale.
Charmaine Jensen, BPsychSci(Hons), is PhD student in Centre for Youth Substance Abuse Research and the School of Medicine at the University Of Queensland, Australia. Her scholarship focusers on the non-medical use of prescription stimulants by university students to for cognitive enhancement purposes. Her research interests focus on psychology, public health, and research methods.
Fabrice Jotterand, PhD, MA, is Associate Professor in the Department of Health Care Ethics at Regis University and Senior Researcher at the Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Switzerland. His scholarship and research interests focus on issues including moral enhancement, neurotechnologies and human identity, the use of neurotechnologies in psychiatry, medical professionalism, and moral and political philosophy.
Neil Levy, PhD, is a professor of philosophy at Macquarie University, Sydney, and at the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics. He is the author of many papers in philosophy of mind, free will, applied ethics and other topics. His most recent books are Consciousness and Moral Responsibility (Oxford University Press, 2014) and Hard Luck (Oxford University Press, 2011).
Daniel H. Loewe, PhD, is an associate research professor at the School of Government, Adolfo Ibanez University in Chile, and an associate member of the Research Centre for Political Philosophy and the International Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities, University of Tübingen. He authored numerous papers in ethics and political philosophy. Along with the development of many research projects he has worked as a researcher and visiting professor at University of Oxford and University of Tübingen, among others.
Jayne Lucke, PhD, is Professor of Public Health at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia and Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research, Brisbane, Australia. Her research focuses on the ethical and policy implications of new technologies, and pharmacological treatments of mental and behavioural disorders that may be used to enhance cognitive capacity.
Hannah Maslen MSc, DPhil, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Ethics, working on the Oxford Martin Programme on Mind and Machine. She is also a Junior Research Fellow at New College. Hannah's academic background is in philosophy, psychology and law: she received her BA in PPP from Oxford in 2007, her MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice from Oxford in 2008, and her DPhil from Oxford in 2011.
Brad Partridge, PhD, is a senior research fellow at the Centre for Youth Substance Abuse Research (CYSAR) at The University of Queensland. Brad was previously a NHMRC research fellow with the Neuroethics Group at the University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research, and a postdoctoral fellow in bioethics at Mayo Clinic (Minnesota, USA). Brad's work has spanned a number of areas related to ethics and public health including substance use/addiction, the use of life-extension technologies, cognitive enhancement, and drug use in sport. His most recent work has investigated ethical and policy issues surrounding the management of concussion/MTBI in sport.
Eric Racine, PhD, is Director of the Neuroethics Research Unit (Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal - IRCM) and Associate IRCM Research Professor. He is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University (Montreal, Quebec), an affiliate member of the Biomedical Ethics Unit, McGill University, and an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Medicine and Social and Preventive Medicine (Bioethics Programs, University of Montreal). His research is involves developing a pragmatic framework for bioethics based on empirical research and exploring its implications in concrete questions related to the ethical application of neuroscience in research, patient care, and public policy. He is associate editor of the journal Neuroethics.
Filippo Santoni de Sio, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Technische Universiteit Delft in the Netherlands. In 2008 he obtained his PhD from the University of Torino (Italy) with a dissertation titled Persona e responsabilità tra etica e diritto (Person and Responsibility Between Ethics and Law). From late 2008 to late 2011 he worked as a Post-doc at the University of Torino on two different neuroethics projects on mental illness and criminal responsibility. From January 2012 to the end of 2014, he worked as a post-doc at the Philosophy Department of Technische Universiteit Delft on an interdisciplinary project entitled Enhancing responsibility: the effects of cognitive enhancement on moral and legal responsibility, run in collaboration with the University of Oxford. The central topic of his research is personal responsibility. He writes in the fields of ethics, legal philosophy, philosophy of action, neuroethics, and ethics of robotics.
Sebastian Sattler, Dr., MA, is a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Sociology and Social Psychology at the University of Cologne. His research interests include morally questionable behavior especially corruption, the (mis-)use of pharmaceuticals to enhance cognitive performance and academic misconduct as well as methods of quantitative empirical research. His work has been published in journals such as 'European Sociological Review', 'PLOS ONE', 'Substance Use & Misuse', and 'Deviant Behavior'.
Julian Savulescu holds the Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford. He holds degrees in medicine, neuroscience and bioethics. He is the Director of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics within the Faculty of Philosophy. He is Director of the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics, funded by the Wellcome Trust and was recently awarded their flagship Senior Investigator Awards looking into responsibility and healthcare. He is also Director of the Institute for Science and Ethics within the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford. He is Editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics and founding editor of Journal of Practical Ethics, an open access journal in Practical Ethics. In 2014, he was awarded Doctoris Honoris Causa by the University of Bucharest. He is Sir Louis Matheson Distinguished Professor at Monash University and Honorary Professorial at the Florey Neuroscience Institutes. He is currently Thinker in Residence and the School of Medicine, Deakin University.
Maartje Schermer, MD, PhD, holds the Civis Mundi chair in Philosophy of Medicine, at ErasmusMC University Medical Center in Rotterdam. She studied medicine and philosophy and obtained a PhD in medical ethics. Her current research interests concern the philosophy and ethics of human enhancement and health-optimalization, concepts of health and disease, and neuroethics.
John R. Shook, PhD, is Research Associate in Philosophy, and Instructor of Science Education for the online Science and the Public graduate program of the University at Buffalo, New York. He also is Lecturer in Philosophy at Bowie State University in Maryland. He has recently been a Visiting Fellow with the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at George Mason University, and with the Center for Neurotechnology Studies at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, in Virginia. His recent research concerns philosophy of science and naturalism, and he applies pragmatic neurophilosophy to issues of technology and bioenhancement, moral psychology, and philosophy of religion/nonreligion.
Dan J. Stein, FRCPC, PhD, DPHil, is Professor and Chair of the Dept of Psychiatry and Mental Health at the University of Cape Town. His primary focus has been on the psychobiology and management of anxiety & related disorders, although he has mentored research in several areas relevant to South Africa and other African and low-middle income countries. He has also contributed to the philosophy of psychiatry and psychopharmacology (including a volume entitled "The Philosophy of Psychopharmacology: Happy Pills, Smart Pills, Pep Pills), as well as work on neuroethics in the context of global mental health.
Nicole Vincent, PhD, is Associate Professor of Philosophy, Law, and Neuroscience at Georgia State University in Atlanta. The concept of responsibility occupies centre stage in her work in the fields of neuroethics, neurolaw, ethics, philosophy of tort and criminal law, and political philosophy. She has written on such topics as the compatibility of responsibility and determinism, medical interventions to make criminal offenders competent for execution, how neuroscience and behavioural genetics fit into criminal responsibility adjudication procedures, tort liability for failure to use cognitive enhancement medications, and whether people who live unhealthy lifestyles should have de-prioritised access to public health care resources and to organ transplants.
Gregor Wolbring, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Community Health Science Stream of Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies at the University of Calgary. He also holds appointments at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), Karlsruhe, Germany, American University of Sovereign Nations (AUSN); (Faculty of Medicine), USA, Institute for Science, Policy and Society, University of Ottawa, Canada and Affiliated Scholar, Center for Nanotechnology and Society at Arizona State University, USA. His scholarship and research interests focus on issues including social implications and governance of emerging scientific and technological products, ability studies, Sustainability studies and Disability studies.
Kevin Chien-Chang Wu, M.D., LL.M., Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Department and Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Bioethics and Chairperson of the Department of Psychiatry at National Taiwan University. Using philosophical anthropology as the core theme, he hopes to explore ways of understanding and seeing human conditions for the governance of human affairs. His scholarship includes bioethics (e.g. psychiatric ethics and neuroethics), health law and policy (e.g. mental health and suicide), food and pharmaceutical policy, and social epidemiology.
