June 1, 2005
Speaker Biographies
Martha Farah is the Bob and Arlene Kogod Term Professor of Psychology and Director of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania. She has previously taught at Carnegie Mellon University. Her work spans many topics within cognitive neuroscience, including visual recognition, attention, mental imagery, semantic memory, reading, prefrontal function and, most recently, neuroethics. She has served the field through NIH and NSF review and planning groups to set research funding priorities (NINDS and NIMH), numerous editorial boards and action editorships, varied committee work for the Society of Neuroscience, and the governing board of the Cognitive Science Society. She is the author of Visual Agnosia (MIT Press, 1990: 2nd edition, 2004) and The Cognitive Neuroscience of Vision (Blackwell, 2000), and editor of a number of books, including Patient-based Approaches to Cognitive Neuroscience (MIT Press, 2000). Her awards include the APA Early Career Contribution Award, The Troland Award of the National Academy of Sciences, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Henry T. (Hank) Greely is the Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor of Law and a professor, by courtesy, of genetics at Stanford University. He specializes in health law and policy and in legal and social issues arising from advances in the biosciences. He has written on issues concerning genetic testing, human cloning, the ethics of human genetics research, and policy issues in the health care financing system, among other things. He chairs the steering committee of the Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics; directs the Center for Law and the Biosciences; and co-directs the Stanford Program on Genomics, Ethics, and Society. After graduating law school, Mr. Greely clerked for Judge John Minor Wisdom on the United States Court of Appeals and for Justice Potter Stewart of the United States Supreme Court. During the Carter administration, he worked in the Departments of Defense and Energy. Mr. Greely entered private practice in Los Angeles in 1981 as a litigator with the law firm of Tuttle & Taylor, Inc.
Joshua Greene is a philosopher and cognitive neuroscientist. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychology and Center for the Study of Brain, Mind, and Behavior at Princeton University, where his research is supported by a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award from the NIH. In 2006 he will join the Department of Psychology at Harvard University as an assistant professor. His experimental research uses behavioral methods coupled with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine the neural bases of morality, focusing on the interplay between emotional and “cognitive” processes in moral decision-making. In 1999 Greene began his current line of experimental research in collaboration with Jonathan Cohen, Leigh Nystrom, and John Darley, while pursuing a Ph.D. in philosophy at Princeton University. His dissertation, which he completed in 2002 and which he is preparing to turn into a book, is an examination of the foundations of ethics informed by recent work in psychology, neuroscience, and evolutionary theory.
Charles Murray is the W.H. Brady Scholar in Culture and Freedom at AEI. A political scientist by training, he researches family, culture, crime, education, and welfare. His most recent book, published in 2003, is Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950 (HarperCollins, 2003). His other works include Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950–1980 (Basic Books, 1984); In Pursuit: Of Happiness and Good Government (Simon & Schuster, 1988); The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (with Richard J. Herrnstein, Free Press, 1994); and What It Means to Be a Libertarian: A Personal Interpretation (Broadway Books, 1997).
Stephen J. Morse is the Ferdinand Wakeman Hubbell Professor of Law and a professor of Psychology and Law in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches criminal law, mental health law, and seminars on criminal responsibility. Trained in both law and psychology at Harvard, Mr. Morse’s writing focuses on individual responsibility in criminal and civil law. His work has appeared in law reviews, journals of psychology, philosophy, and psychiatry, edited collections, and op-ed articles. He has published Foundations of Criminal Law (Foundation Press, with Leo Katz and Michael S. Moore) and is currently writing a book on moral and legal responsibility and social control, tentatively entitled Desert and Disease: Responsibility and Social Control.
Steven Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. Prior to taking this position in 2003, Mr. Pinker served on the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for twenty-one years and spent time on the faculty of Stanford University. Mr. Pinker’s research has focused on visual cognition and the psychology of language. His research has been reported in two technical books and many journal articles, and has won the Troland Award from the National Academy of Sciences, the Henry Dale Prize from the Royal Institution of Great Britain, and the Early Career Award and McCandless Prize from the American Psychological Association. Mr. Pinker has also received awards for graduate and undergraduate teaching, two prizes for general achievement, three honorary doctorates, and eights awards for his critically acclaimed popular science books The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, and The Blank Slate; the latter two were also finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction. Pinker is an elected fellow of several scholarly societies, including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Neuroscience Research Program. He is an associate editor of Cognition and serves on many professional panels, such as the Usage Panel of the American Heritage Dictionary, the Scientific Advisory Panel of the Evolution series on NOVA, and the Endangered Language Fund. Mr. Pinker also writes in the popular press, including the New York Times, Time, The New Yorker, and Technology Review.
Sally L. Satel, M.D. is a resident scholar at AEI. Before joining AEI, Dr. Satel was a practicing psychiatrist and lecturer at the Yale University School of Medicine. She continues to be a staff psychiatrist at the Oasis Clinic and a senior associate at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, both in Washington, D.C. She has written widely in academic journals on topics in psychiatry and addiction medicine, and has published articles on cultural aspects of medicine and science in the New York Times, The New Republic, Commentary, Atlantic Monthly, New York Times Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal. Dr. Satel is author of PC, M.D.: How Political Correctness Is Corrupting Medicine (Basic Books, 2001) and Drug Treatment: The Case for Coercion (AEI Press, 1999). She is coauthor with Christina Hoff Sommers of One Nation Under Therapy: How the Helping Culture is Eroding Self-Reliance (St. Martin’s Press, April 2005).
Christina Hoff Sommers is a resident scholar at AEI. She has been a professor of philosophy at Clark University since 1981. She specializes in ethics and contemporary moral theory and has published many scholarly articles in such journals as the Journal of Philosophy and the New England Journal of Medicine. Ms. Sommers is editor of Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life--one of the most popular ethics textbooks in the country. She became known to the wider public as the author of Who Stole Feminism? How Women Have Betrayed Women. Her latest book, The War Against Boys, has received widespread attention and praise and was excerpted for a cover story in the Atlantic Monthly. It was included in the New York Times’s "Notable Books of the Year." Sommers has been published in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, and USA Today, and has appeared on Nightline, ABC Evening News, Crossfire, 20/20, Politically Incorrect, and the Oprah Winfrey Show. She is coauthor with Sally Satel of One Nation under Therapy: How the Helping Culture is Eroding Self-Reliance (St. Martin’s Press, April 2005).
Philip E. Tetlock holds the Mitchell Endowed Chair at the University of California, Berkeley, and is the Burtt Professor of Psychology and Political Science at Ohio State University. He has received numerous professional and scientific awards from a range of organizations, including the American Psychological Association, the American Political Science Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the MacArthur Foundation, the International Society of Political Psychology, and the National Academy of Sciences. He has published more than 150 articles in peer-refereed journals and edited or written nine books. He has special research interests in the reciprocal interplay between psychology and politics: the role that psychological processes play in political reasoning and the role that political processes play in shaping psychological research. His most recent book is Expert Political Reasoning: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? (Princeton University Press).
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