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Speakers
Kathy Behrendt
Kathy Behrendt is an Assistant Professor at Wilfred Laurier University,
Ontario. She has studied in Canada and the UK, receiving her DPhil from
the University of Oxford, where she also taught. Her research interests
concern personal identity theory, self knowledge, and death. She has published
several papers on personal identity, and has recently contributed to a
volume on Narrative and Understanding Persons, edited by Daniel
Hutto (Cambridge University Press 2007).
Chris Belshaw
Chris Belshaw is a Senior Lecturer at the Open University. His research
interests concern the nature and value of death, the metaphysics of personhood,
the meaning of life, along with some questions in medical ethics and environmental
philosophy. He is the author of 10 Good Questions about Life and Death
(Blackwell Publishing, 2005) and is currently working on a blacker book,
Annihilation: The Sense and Significance of Death, to be published
by Acumen.
Lisa Bortolotti
Lisa Bortolotti is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Birmingham.
She has a wide range of interests in Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of
Psychology and Ethics. She has particular interest in arguments concerning
the desirability of immortality. She is a member of the Death
and Dying Research Group at the University of Birmingham.
Mikel Burley
Mikel Burley is a PhD student at the University of Leeds. He has research
interests in the philosophy of religion, the philosophy of time, Wittgenstein,
Kant and Indian philosophy. His publications include ‘Anticipating
Annihilation’ (Inquiry 2006); ‘Phillips and Eternal
Life: A Response to Haldane’, (Philosophical Investigations,
forthcoming, July 2008); and ‘Should a B-Theoretic Atheist Fear
Death?’ (Ratio, forthcoming, September 2008).
Havi Carel
Havi Carel is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at UWE, Bristol. Her research
interests include philosophy of medicine, phenomenology and the metaphysics
of death. Her monograph, Life and Death in Freud and Heidegger
(New York: Rodopi) was published in 2006. Her new book, Illness
(Acumen) will be out in August 2008. She is also the author of a number
of papers on death and illness.
Tim Chappell
Tim Chappell is Professor of Philosophy at the Open University, and Director
of the Open University’s Ethics Centre. He has research interests
in ethics, epistemology and the history of philosophy. His publications
include ‘Persons in time’ in H. Dyke, ed., Time and Ethics
(Kluwer, 2003), and ‘Infinity Goes Up on Trial: Must Immortality
be Meaningless?’ (European Journal of Philosophy, 2007).
He is currently working on a book titled Ethics and the Vision of
Value.
Tom Cochrane
Tom Cochrane is a postdoctoral researcher at the Swiss Centre for Affective
Sciences in Geneva. He has recently completed a PhD thesis on music and
emotion at the University of Nottingham. His current research interests
focus on emotion and the sublime.
Matthew Hanser
Matthew Hanser is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University
of California, Santa Barbara. He has a range of interests in ethics and
philosophy of action, and has published a number of papers on harm, killing
and dying.
Steve Holland
Steve Holland is a Lecturer in Philosophy and Health Sciences at the University
of York. His research interests are in bioethics and the ethics of public
health. He is the author of Bioethics: A Philosophical Introduction
(Cambridge: Polity Press, 2003) and Public Health Ethics
(Cambridge: Polity Press, 2007)
Jens Johansson
Jens Johansson is currently a Research Associate at the Uehiro Centre
for Practical Ethics and Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford.
He is also connected to the Department of Philosophy at Stockholm University.
His research interests include the metaphysics and value of death and
personal identity.
Steven Luper
Steven Luper is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department
at Trinity University, San Antonio. He has published on a broad range
of ethical topics, including the harmfulness of death and posthumous harms.
He is the author of the entry on ‘Death’ in the Stanford
University Encyclopedia of Philosophy (ed. E.N. Zalta 2002).
Eric Olson
Eric Olson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield,
and is especially well known for his work on persons and personal identity.
His latest book What are we? A Study in Personal Ontology was
published by Oxford University Press in 2007.
Carolyn Price
Carolyn Price is a Senior Lecturer at the Open University. Her research
interests are in the philosophy of mind – particularly issues concerning
intentional content, rationality and emotion. She is currently working
on a book on emotion, and has recently published papers on emotional appraisals
on the difference between emotions and moods.
David Pugmire
David Pugmire is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southampton.
His main research interest is in the philosophy of emotion. His second
book on the topic - Sound Sentiments: Integrity in the Emotions
- was published by Oxford University Press in 2005.
Patrick Stokes
Patrick Stokes is a postdoctoral fellow at the Søren Kierkegaard
Research Centre at the University of Copenhagen where he is working on
a project titled ‘Self, identity and reflexive cognition in Kierkegaard’s
thought’, funded by the Danish Research Council for the Humanities.
He is also an Honorary Fellow in the School of Philosophy at the University
of Melbourne. His research interests include 19th and 20th century European
philosophy, existentialism, narrative selfhood and personal identity,
and the metaphysics of death.
Chris Wareham
Chris Wareham is currently completing his PhD at the University of Kwa-Zulu
Natal, South Africa. His thesis focuses on the harm of death and its consequences
for ethical theory, and addresses issues in metaphysics and ethics.
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