Matthew Broome is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Warwick and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist to the Coventry Early Intervention Team, Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust. His main research interests are in the prodromal phase of psychosis, cognitive neuropsychology of delusion formation, functional neuroimaging and the philosophy of psychiatry and cognitive science. Matthew Broome is Chair of the Philosophy Special Interest Group, Royal College of Psychiatrists, a member of the editorial board of European Psychiatry; Neuroethics; Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology, a founder member of the Maudsley Philosophy Group and Trustee of the Maudsley Philosophy Group Trust and was awarded the Association of European Psychiatrists' Prize for Psychopathology in 2006. Lisa Bortolotti is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Birmingham (UK). Her main research interests are in the philosophy of the cognitive sciences and in the intersection between philosophy of mind and ethics. She has published a number of articles on belief ascription, rationality and delusions in journals such as Mind & Language and Philosophical Psychology. She is the author of a textbook in the Philosophy of Science for Polity Press, and she is working on a monograph defending the doxastic conception of delusions. Lisa Bortolotti was awarded a 2008 Endeavour Research Fellowship, funded by the Australian Government, to spend 4-6 months working at the Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Sciences.

Anne M Aimola Davies, Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
Lisa Bortolotti, Dept of Philosophy, University of Birmingham, Edbaston, Birmingham, UK
Matthew R Broome. Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
John Campbell, Dept of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley CA, USA
Rachel Cooper, Philosophy Dept, Furness College, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
Martin Davies, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, UK
Keith Frankish, Dept of Philosophy, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
KWM (Bill) Fulford, Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
Shaun Gallagher, Philosophy & Cognitive Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
Philip Gerrans, Philosophy Dept, School of Humanities, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
George Graham, Dept of Philosophy, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem NC, USA
Jeanette Kennett, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Iain Law, Dept of Philosophy, University of Birmingham, Edbaston, Birmingham, UK
Dan Lloyd, Dept of Philosophy, Trinity College, Hartford CT, USA
Steve Matthews, School of Humanities & Social Sciences, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga NSW, Australia
Dominic Murphy, Caltech, Division of Humanities & Social Sciences, Pasadena CA, USA
Hanna Pickard, All Souls College, University of Oxford, UK
Matthew Ratcliffe, Dept of Philosophy, Durham University, Durham, UK
Richard Samuels, Dept of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Columbus OH, USA
Norman Sartorius, Geneva, Switzerland
Dan Stein, UCT Dept of Psychiatry, Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
Lynn Stephens, Dept of Philosophy, University of Alabama, Birmingham AL, USA
Tim Thornton, Centre for Ethnicity and Health, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK

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