About the Authors and Editors

ABOUT THE AUTHORS AND EDITORS

TIMO AIRAKSINEN is Professor of Moral and Social Philosophy at the University of Helsinki, Finland. His research interests include philosophy of technology and Hobbes.

VILHJÁLMUR ÁRNASON studied philosophy at The University of Iceland (B.A.) and at Purdue University, USA (M.A., Ph.D). He was an Alexander von Humboldt scholar in Berlin (1993) and visiting fellow at Clare Hall Cambridge (2006). He is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Centre for Ethics at the University of Iceland. He works mainly in the fields of moral theory, bioethics and political philosophy.

RICHARD ASHCROFT is Professor of Bioethics in the School of Law, Queen Mary University of London, UK. He taught previously in the medical schools of Queen Mary, Imperial College London, and Bristol University. He is a Deputy Editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics. He works mainly in research ethics and public health ethics, but has a wide range of philosophical interests in applied ethics.

MARGARET PABST BATTIN is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine in the Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities at the University of Utah, USA. The author of prize-winning short stories and recipient of the University of Utah’s Distinguished Research Award, she has authored, edited, or co-edited nineteen books, including studies of philosophical issues in suicide, a volume of case-puzzles in aesthetics, a text on professional ethics, a study of ethical issues in organized religion, two col- lections of essays on end-of-life issues, entitled The Least Worst Death and Ending Life, and the multi-authored volumes Drugs and Justice: Seeking a Consistent, Coherent, Comprehensive View and The Patient as Victim and Vector: Ethics and Infectious Disease.

REBECCA BENNETT is Senior Lecturer in Bioethics, Centre for Social Eth- ics and Policy, and Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation, University of Manchester, UK. Rebecca has published widely on diverse issues in bioethics since early 1990s. Her specific research interests include antenatal HIV testing, assisted reproductive technologies, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, genetic testing in pregnancy, arguments surrounding attempts to eradicate disability, responsibility in pregnancy, HIV/AIDS, cloning, stem cell research, ectogene- sis, and selective treatment of infants.

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LISA BORTOLOTTI is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her main interests are in the philosophy of the cognitive sciences and in applied ethics. She has written articles on philosophical psy- chopathology for journals such as Mind & Language, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, and Philosophical Psychology. She has contributed to bio- ethical debates on reproductive autonomy and research ethics with articles in the Journal of Medical Ethics, Reproductive Biomedicine Online, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, and the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. She is the author of An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (Polity Press, 2008), the editor of Philosophy and Happiness (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), and the co-editor with Matthew Broome of Psychiatry as Cognitive Neurosci- ence: Philosophical Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2009).

TOM BULLER is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alaska Anchorage. His main research interests are in bioethics and neuroeth- ics.

LESLIE P. FRANCIS is Distinguished Professor, Department of Philosophy, and Alfred C Emery Professor of Law at the University of Utah. She works on areas at the intersection of law, legal and ethical theory, bioethics, and disability. She is particularly interested in issues of distributive justice, partial com- pliance theory, and discrimination. She is co-editor of six volumes, including the Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics and Americans with Disabilities, co- author of Land Wars: Property, Community and Land Use in an Intercon- nected World, and author of Sexual Harassment: Ethical Issues in Academic Life.

HETA GYLLING is Professor and Head of the Department of Social and Moral Philosophy at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Her fields of exper- tise include ethics and philosophy of law.

SVEN OVE HANSSON is Professor and Head of the Department of Philoso- phy and the History of Technology, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. He is editor-in-chief of Theoria, one of the directors of the Stockholm Centre for Healthcare Ethics, and board member of the international Society for Philosophy and Technology. He is the author of around 200 papers in international journals on a wide range of philosophical topics, including ethics, value theory, decision theory, philosophy of risk, philosophy of science and technology, epistemology, and formal logic. His books include A Textbook of Belief Dynamics (Kluwer 1999) and The Structure of Values and Norms (CUP 2001). Homepage: http://www.infra.kth.se/~soh.