CURRICULUM VITAE Mary Jean Walker Email: [email protected] Phone: +61 425 325 387 Citizenship: Australia EDUCATION 2010 Doctor of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Department of Philosophy Thesis Title: Personal Continuation: Psychological continuity and narrative theories of identity Supervisors: Professor Catriona Mackenzie, Professor Peter Menzies 2004 Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Honours Class I (Philosophy), University of Sydney EMPLOYMENT HISTORY September 2019 – present Research Assistant Professor, Department of Religion and Philosophy, Hong Kong Baptist University July 2016 – July 2019 Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Monash University March 2016 – present Affiliate Member, Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics, Macquarie University August 2014 – March 2016 Research Fellow, Philosophy Department, Macquarie University (Part- time 0.5) March 2014 – April 2016 Research Assistant, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University (Part-time 0.5) Nov 2011 – July 2014 Research Officer, Australian National Council on Drugs PUBLICATIONS Peer-reviewed journal articles 1. Walker MJ, Mackenzie C (forthcoming). Neurotechnologies, relational autonomy, and authenticity. International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (accepted 15 February 2019). 2. Stephens-Fripp B, Walker MJ, Goddard E, Alici G. 2019. A survey on what Australians with upper limb difference want in a prosthesis. Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology 1 (published online 11 March). https://doi.org/10.1080/17483107.2019.1580777. 3. Walker MJ, Bourke JL, Hutchison K. 2019. Evidence for personalized medicine: Mechanisms, correlation, and new kinds of black box. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 40(2): 103-121. 4. Walker MJ. 2019. Two senses of narrative unification. Philosophical Explorations 22(1): 78-93. 5. Walker MJ. 2018. On replacement body parts. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 16(1):61-73. 6. Walker MJ, Franklin J. 2018. An argument against drug testing welfare recipients. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 28(3): 309-360. 7. Walker MJ, Rogers WA. 2018. A new approach to defining disease. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 43(4): 402-420. 8. Rogers WA, Walker MJ. 2018. Precising definitions as a way to combat overdiagnosis. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 24(5): 1019-25. 9. Walker MJ. 2018. Patient-specific devices and population-level evidence: Evaluating therapeutic interventions with inherent variation. Medicine, Healthcare and Philosophy 21(3): 335-45. 10. Walker MJ, Rogers WA. 2017. Diagnosis, narrative identity, and asymptomatic disease. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 38(4): 307-21. 11. Doust J, Walker MJ, Rogers WA. 2017. Current dilemmas in defining the boundaries of disease. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 42(4): 350-66. 12. Rogers WA, Walker MJ. 2017. The line-drawing problem in disease definition. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 42(4): 405-23. 13. Walker MJ, Rogers WA. 2017. Defining disease in the context of overdiagnosis. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 20(2): 269-80. 14. Clarke S, Giubilini A, Walker MJ. 2017. Conscientious objection to vaccination. Bioethics 31(3): 155-161. 15. Rogers WA, Walker MJ. 2016. Fragility, uncertainty and healthcare. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 37(1): 71-83. 16. Walker MJ, Rogers WA, Entwistle V. 2014. Ethical justifications for access to unapproved medical interventions: an argument for (limited) patient obligations. American Journal of Bioethics 14(11): 3-15. 17. Walker MJ, Rogers WA. 2014. What can feminist epistemology do for surgery? Hypatia 29(2): 404-421. 18. Walker MJ. 2012. Neuroscience, self-understanding, and narrative truth. AJOB Neuroscience 3(4): 63-74. 2 19. Walker MJ, Townley C. 2012. Contract cheating: A new challenge for academic honesty? Journal of Academic Ethics 10(1): 27-44. 20. Walker MJ. 2010. Addiction and self-deception: A method for self-control? Journal of Applied Philosophy 27(3): 305-319. Book Chapters 21. Walker MJ, Rogers WA, Entwistle V (forthcoming). The ethical and epistemic roles of narrative in person centred healthcare. Philosophy of Person Centred Healthcare, ed. M Loughlin and A. Miles, Aesculepius Medical Press, London. 22. Mackenzie C, Walker MJ. 2015. Neurotechnologies, personal identity, and the ethics of authenticity. In Springer Handbook of Neuroethics, ed. J. Clausen and N. Levy, Springer, Dordrecht, 373-92. 23. Walker MJ. 2014. Powerlessness and responsibility in Twelve Step narratives. In Sobering Wisdom: Philosophical Explorations of Twelve Step programs, ed. N Plants and J Miller, University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, 30-41. Invited journal article 24. Walker MJ, Rogers WA. 2017. Reasonableness, credibility, and clinical disagreement. AMA Journal of Ethics 19(2): 176-82. Non-peer-reviewed pieces in journals 25. Walker MJ, Rogers WA. 2017. Introduction: The boundaries of disease. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 42(4):343-9. 26. Walker MJ, Rogers WA, Entwistle V. 2014. Special access programs warrant further critical attention: Authors’ response to open peer commentaries on “Ethical justifications for access to unapproved medical interventions: An argument for (limited) patient obligations”. American Journal of Bioethics 14(11): W1-W2. Book reviews 27. Walker MJ. 2019. Book review: Just Enough Health: Theories of Health Justice by Thomas Schramme. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice (online first). https://doi.org/10.1111/jep.13267. 28. Walker MJ. 2017. Marcum, James A (ed). The Bloomsbury Companion to Contemporary Philosophy of Medicine. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 38 (6): 501-506. 29. Walker MJ. 2008. McCarthy, Joan. Dennett and Ricoeur on the Narrative Self. Metapsychology Online Reviews (June 24, 2008). http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4306&cn=394. Reports 30. Coles D, Engelhard M, Han B, Kumar A, Laas K, Ladikas M, Lin R, Schroeder D, Srinivas R, 3 van Niekerk J, Walker MJ, Weckert J. 2015. RRI Country Requirements Matrix. http://www.progressproject.eu/project-deliverables/. 31. Coles D, Davis M, Engelhard M, Han B, Kumar A, Laas K, Ladikas M, Lin R, Lingner S, Majima S, Pereira L, Rush E, Schrempf B, Schroeder D, Srinivas R, Walker MJ, Weckert J, Wynberg R, Zhizhong Y. 2014. Innovation for Society. http://www.progressproject.eu/project- deliverables/. Guest-edited journal special issue Walker MJ, Rogers WA. 2017. The Boundaries of Disease. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 42(4). SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS 2019 Brocher Foundation Residency (February – March) 2018 Kathleen Fitzpatrick Mentoring Scheme Fellow 2005 – 2009 Macquarie University Research Areas and Centres of Excellence Scholarship 2004 Commonwealth Education Costs Scholarship 2003 Lithgow Scholarship IV (third-year philosophy prize), University of Sydney GRANTS 2015 Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics Conference Grant. “Defining the Boundaries of Disease”. Macquarie University. Wendy A. Rogers and Mary Jean Walker. $4,000. TEACHING Undergraduate lecturing Matters of life and death (GE unity), Hong Kong Baptist University Ethical Theory (second-year unit), Charles Sturt University Values and Decisions (third-year unit), Charles Sturt University Philosophy Capstone: The Self (honours unit, guest lecture), Macquarie University Undergraduate on-campus tutoring Philosophy, Morality and Society (first-year unit), Macquarie University, 2009-11 Mind, Meaning and Metaphysics (first-year unit), Macquarie University, 2006-08 Introduction to Philosophy (first-year unit), University of Notre Dame Australia, 2009 Critical Thinking (first-year unit), Macquarie University, 2006-08 Introduction to Ethics (first-year unit), Australian Catholic University, 2009 Media, Ethics and Law (second/third-year unit), University of Wollongong, 2009 4 Undergraduate online tutoring Philosophy, Morality and Society (first-year unit), Open Universities Australia, 2008-11 Mind, Meaning and Metaphysics (first-year unit), Open Universities Australia, 2011 Business and Professional Ethics (second/third-year unit), Macquarie University, 2011 Postgraduate teaching and guest lectures 2019 Defining disease. Postgraduate/undergraduate guest lecture, University of Antwerp. 2017 Narrative identity. Postgraduate masterclass, Monash University. 2017 Evidence in clinical practice. Masters of Biofabrication Ethics Intensive, University of Wollongong. PRESENTATIONS Invited presentations 2019 A heart without life: Phenomenology and artificial organs. Philosophy Department, La Trobe University, May. Overdiagnosis, screening, and defining disease. Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, May. Evidence for personalised medicine. Philosophy Department, University of Antwerp, March. Narratives as epistemic tools. (Keynote). Workshop on ‘What is narrative? Ethical and Epistemic insights’. Centre for Linguistics and Language Sciences, University of Lausanne, March. Neurotechnologies, relational autonomy, and authenticity. Institute of Ethics, History and Theory of Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, March. 2014 Invited panelist, Philosophy in the Field Workshop, Macquarie University. 2010 Identification and self-concern. Charles Sturt University Departmental Seminar. Refereed conferences 2019 Intoxication and responsibility. Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference, University of Wollongong, July. 2018 The epistemic status of narrative and improving patient care. European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare 32nd Annual Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, August.