Psychopathy / History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences Bd.27 (PDF)

Luca Malatesti is an Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Rijeka (Croatia). His research interests are in the philosophy of mind and philosophy of psychiatry. He was Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Applied Ethics, Hull (2005-2007). Some of his recent publications are: "The societal response to psychopathy in the community" (with Jurjako and Brazil), International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, forthcoming; "The insanity defence without mental illness? Some considerations" (with Jurjako and Meynen) International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 2020; "Biocognitive classification of antisocial individuals without explanatory reductionism" (with Jurjako and Brazil) Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2020; "The Moral Bioenhancement of Psychopaths" (with Baccarini) Journal of Medical Ethics, 2018. He has co-edited with John McMillan Psychopathy andResponsibility: Interfacing Philosophy, Law, and Psychiatry (Oxford University Press, 2010) and he is currently co-authoring with him the book Methodological Issues in Neuroethics: The Case of Responsibility which is under contract with Cambridge University Press.







John McMillan is a Professor at the Bioethics Centre at the University of Otago. He has worked for several years broadly within the area of mental health ethics. He is an editor of Empirical Ethics in Psychiatry (Oxford University Press, 2008) and Psychopathy and Responsibility: Interfacing Philosophy, Law and Psychiatry (OUP, 2010). He is a co-author of the Assessment of Mental Capacity: A New Zealand Guide for Doctors and Lawyers (VUP, 2020). His most recent monograph is The Methods of Bioethics: An Essay in Metabioethics which was published by OUP in 2018 and he is currently co-authoring the book Methodological Issues in Neuroethics: The Case of Responsibility which is under contract with Cambridge University Press. He is the current Editor