Responsibility and psychopathy
Interfacing law, psychiatry and philosophy
Edited by Luca Malatesti and John McMillan
Author Information
Luca Malatesti received his doctorate in philosophy of science from the University of Genoa and his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Stirling. He was Wellcome Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Institute of Applied Ethics at the University of Hull. He is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Rijeka (Croatia). His areas of research are philosophy of mind and philosophy of psychiatry.
John McMillan is Associate Professor at the School of Medicine, Flinders University. Prior to this appointment he worked at the Hull York Medical School (2004-9), Cambridge (2002-4), Oxford (1998-2002) and Otago (1995-8) where he taught ethics to philosophy and medical students. He is an editor of The Principles of Healthcare Ethics (with Ashcroft, Dawson and Draper) 2007, Empirical Ethics in Psychiatry (with Widdershoven, Hope and Van der Scheer) 2008 and The Limits of Consent (with Corrigan, Liddell, Richards and Weijer) 2009. He was a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics working party on ethical issues and dementia which reported on October 1st, 2009. He is about to begin work on a book The Methods of Bioethics (with Adrian Walsh).
Contributors:
Peter Bartlett, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, Professor of Mental Health Law, School of Law, University of Nottingham, UK
Antony Duff, Professor of Philosophy, the University of Stirling, UK
Grant Gillett, Professor of Medical Ethics, Bioethics Centre, University of Otago, New Zealand
Ishtiyaque Haji, Professor of Philosophy, University of Calgary, Canada
Robert Hare, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Canada
Carla L. Harenski, Postdoctoral fellow, MIND Research Network, Albuquerque, USA
Douglas Heinrichs, MD, Ellicott City, Maryland, USA
Jeanette Kennett, Professor in Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Neil Levy, James Martin Research Fellow, Program on ethics of the new biosciences, University of Oxford, UK
Heidi Maibom, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Carleton University, Canada
Matt Matravers, Professor of Philosophy, York University, UK
Stephen Morse, Ferdinand Wakeman Hubbell Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology and Law in Psychiatry, Law School, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Craig Neumann, Professor of Psychology, University of North Texas, USA
James Ogloff, Professor of Clinical Forensic Psychology, Director of the Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science, Monash University and Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health, (Forensicare), Australia
Ronald B. de Sousa, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, The University of Toronto, Canada
Tony Ward, Reader, Law School, University of Hull, UK
Melisa Wood, Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science, Monash University, Australia
