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Dr Hanna Pickard

Wellcome Trust Biomedical Ethics Clinical Research Fellow
at The Oxford Centre for Neuroethics
Fellow of All Souls College

h.pickard@gmail.com

All Souls College
Oxford, OX1 4AL
United Kingdom

 Hanna Pickard

Research Interests

Hanna Pickard is a philosopher of mind and psychiatry, and a therapist at the Oxfordshire Complex Needs Service, a NHS therapeutic community for people with personality disorder. Her research aims to integrate analytic philosophy with clinical data. She is the recipient of a 5 year Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship to work on the nature of responsibility and morality within personality disorder.

Areas of interest: philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychiatry, moral psychology, epistemology, biomedical and clinical ethics

Career & Education

Academic Career
2010 – 2015 Wellcome Trust Biomedical Ethics Clinical Research Fellow, Oxford Centre for Neuroethics
2009 – 2010 Research Fellow, Oxford Centre for Neuroethics
2006 – 2013 Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford
1997 – 2005 Prize Fellow in Philosophy, All Souls College, Oxford
1995 – 1997 Commonwealth Scholar in Philosophy, Magdalen College, Oxford


Clinical Post:

2008 – Therapist at the Oxfordshire Complex Needs Service, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Education:
2001 D.Phil. in Philosophy, University of Oxford
1997 B.Phil. in Philosophy, University of Oxford
1995

B.A. (Hons) in Philosophy, Queen’s University, Canada

Selected Publications

  1. 'The Purpose in Chronic Addiction' (2012) Target Article in American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience

  2. 'What is Addiction?' (anticipated 2013) in B. Fulford, R. Gipps, and J. Sadler (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Psychiatry: OUP (with Walter Sinnott-Armstrong)

  3. 'Responsibility without Blame: Philosophical Reflections on Clinical Practice' (anticipated 2013) in B. Fulford, R. Gipps, and J. Sadler (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Psychiatry: OUP

  4. 'The instrumental rationality of addiction' (2011) Behavioral and Brain Sciences

  5. Review of Jeffrey Poland and George Graham (eds.) Addiction and Responsibility (2011) Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

  6. 'What is Personality Disorder?' (2011) Philosophy, Psychiatry, Psychology

  7. 'Responsibility without Blame: Empathy and the Effective Treatment of Personality Disorder' (2011) Philosophy, Psychiatry, Psychology

  8. 'Addiction in Context: Philosophical Lessons from a Personality Disorder Clinic' (anticipated 2012) in Addiction and Self-control, N. Levy, ed. OUP (with Steve Pearce). [penultimate version here]

  9. 'Finding the will to recover: philosophical perspectives on agency and the sick role' (2010) Journal of Medical Ethics (with Steve Pearce)

  10. ‘Schizophrenia and the epistemology of self-knowledge’ (2010) The European Journal of Analytic Philosophy: Special Edition in the Philosophy of Psychiatry

  11. Review of Grant Gillett’s The Mind and its Discontents (2010) The Journal of Applied Philosophy
    (This is an electronic version of an article published in the Journal for Applied Philosophy: complete citation information for the final version of the paper, as published in the print edition of the Journal for Applied Philosophy, is available on the Blackwell Synergy online delivery service, accessible via the journal's website)

  12. ‘The Moral Content of Psychiatric Treatment’ (2009) The British Journal of Psychiatry (with Steve Pearce)

  13. ‘Mental Illness is Indeed a Myth’ (2009) in L. Bortolotti and M. Broome (eds.) Psychiatry as Cognitive Science: Philosophical Perspectives: OUP

  14. ‘Knowledge of Action without Observation’ (2004) Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society

  15. ‘Emotions and the Problem of Other Minds’ (2003) in A. Hatzymoysis (ed.) Philosophy and the Emotions: CUP

Edited Journal:

    Guest Editor of Special Issue of Philosophy, Psychiatry, Psychology: Philosophical Perspectives on Personality Disorder (2011) volume 18(3)

Selected Public Engagement / Miscellaneous

  1. Bioethics Bites interview on Responsibility and Personality Disorder
    http://www.neuroethics.ox.ac.uk/bio-ethics_bites

  2. 'What Aristotle Can Teach Us About Personality Disorder' (2011) commissioned by the National Personal Disorder Website http://www.personalitydisorder.org.uk/2011/05/2208/

  3. Witness on the Radio 4's The Moral Maze on Sex Addiction and the Medicalization of Immoral Behaviour (interview begins 27 minutes into the programme) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00zf34d#synopsis