me

I am a philosopher. The concept of responsibility occupies centre stage in my scholarly pursuits, which span across the fields of neuroethics, neurolaw, ethics, philosophy of tort and criminal law, and political philosophy. My approach is analytic and empirically-informed, and my past work has devoted equal attention to tackling conceptual, normative, metaphysical and practical problems. For example, I have written about such topics as the different meanings of the term “responsibility”, 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.

In 2007 I obtained my PhD in philosophy of law from the University of Adelaide with a dissertation entitled “Responsibility, Compensation and Accident Law Reform”. From late 2007 until early 2011 I worked in the Philosophy Section at Technische Universiteit Delft in The Netherlands on a neurolaw research project entitled “The Brain and The Law”. Since February 2011 I have been a Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia working on a project entitled “Reappraising the Capacitarian Foundation of Neurolaw”. I retain a concurrent appointment at Technische Universiteit Delft where I head up the research project “Enhancing Responsibility: the effects of cognitive enhancement on moral and legal responsibility”.

In August 2013 I will join the Department of Philosophy at Georgia State University as Associate Professor of Philosophy, Law and Neuroscience.

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